# Posthumous Dignity **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Dignity / Death **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Comparative legal and ethical concept ## Definition **Posthumous Dignity** is the principle that treatment of a deceased person's body, identity, reputation, records, or representation may remain subject to dignity-based limits. ## Continuity Significance It supplies a non-property rationale for limiting degrading, deceptive, or exploitative digital replicas of the dead. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Dignity appears across burial, medical, cultural, privacy, and digital-remains discourse. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Posthumous dignity does not necessarily imply the deceased remains a legal person. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Human Rights After Death|Human Rights After Death]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica|Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Deadbot|Deadbot]] · [[wiki/Posthumous Privacy|Posthumous Privacy]]