# Posthumous Digital Human Twin **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Human Representation **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Policy-facing research concept ## Definition A **Posthumous Digital Human Twin** is a digital twin of a specific person that persists, is created, or continues operating after that person's biological death. ## Continuity Significance It is the bridge object between postmortem data governance and potentially agentic human reconstruction. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence The Human Digital Remains governance literature explicitly proposes legal attention to continuation or erasure of Digital Human Twins after death. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note No current government program identified creates rights-bearing posthumous Digital Human Twins. Medical twin programs remain focused on living patients. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Human Digital Remains|Human Digital Remains]] · [[wiki/Digital Human Twin|Digital Human Twin]] · [[wiki/Virtual Human Twin|Virtual Human Twin]] · [[wiki/Right to Continuation or Erasure|Right to Continuation or Erasure]] · [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02514-4 <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE -->