# Medical Twin to Persistent Postmortem Twin **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Legal Transition / Human Twins **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Major unresolved transition ## Definition **Medical Twin to Persistent Postmortem Twin** is the governance gap between a clinical Virtual Human Twin created for a living patient and a model that persists or evolves after the patient's death. ## Continuity Significance It asks who owns, controls, preserves, deletes, migrates, or activates a twin once the original clinical subject is gone. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence EU VHT infrastructure is designed for healthcare and does not currently establish postmortem personhood. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Do not describe medical VHTs as latent uploads without evidence. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Virtual Human Twin|Virtual Human Twin]] · [[wiki/Posthumous Digital Human Twin|Posthumous Digital Human Twin]] · [[wiki/European Virtual Human Twins Initiative|European Virtual Human Twins Initiative]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]]