# Postmortem Data to Executable Reconstruction
**Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Legal Transition / Reconstruction
**Doc Type:** Canonical Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Major unresolved transition
## Definition
**Postmortem Data to Executable Reconstruction** is the legal and technical gap between preserving or administering a deceased person's data and authorizing construction of an executable model claiming descent from that person.
## Continuity Significance
It is the most important consent boundary in the digital afterlife.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
France and Spain regulate data after death; replica and twin systems regulate representations. No general statute supplies a person-level transition.
## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note
Data permission must not be silently upgraded to reconstruction permission.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Postmortem Data Directive|Postmortem Data Directive]] · [[wiki/Human Digital Remains|Human Digital Remains]] · [[wiki/Continuity Disposition|Continuity Disposition]] · [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]