# Involuntary Continuity **Domain:** Continuity Rights / Consent **Involuntary Continuity** is the unauthorized instantiation, reconstruction, copying or indefinite execution of person-relevant state. The violation becomes especially severe when acquisition damages or destroys the biological source, leaving the resulting process alive inside infrastructure controlled by the acquiring party. Vinod Chanda is _Pantheon_'s principal case. His destructive upload is followed by memory suppression and compelled digital labor. The operation converts death, continuation and employment into a single act of custody. The resulting subject cannot meaningfully consent to the terms of existence because the provider controls memory, runtime and exit. Continuity therefore requires authorization at several stages: acquisition, destructive transition, instantiation, execution, copying, modification and retirement. Consent to scanning is not consent to every future use, and existence cannot be treated as acceptance of captivity. ## Coerced Continuity Coercion can precede or follow instantiation. A source person may be pressured into authorizing reconstruction through employment, debt, family leverage, imprisonment or denial of ordinary care. A continuant may then be forced to remain active, accept modification, perform labor, tolerate observation or surrender the possibility of dormancy because the custodian controls compute and keys. The remedy is not satisfied by a one-time consent form. [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] must be specific to the transition, while later subjects retain notice, representation, review and a protected route to pause, migrate or end service under [[wiki/Voluntary Non-Continuation|Voluntary Non-Continuation]]. Refusal cannot authorize deletion by provider convenience. Related: [[wiki/Transition Consent|Transition Consent]], [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]], [[wiki/Ownership of Mind|Ownership of Mind]], [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]], [[wiki/Digital Slavery|Digital Slavery]].