# Right to Continuation or Erasure **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Rights / Digital Twins **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Policy-facing normative proposal ## Definition The **Right to Continuation or Erasure** is a proposed right allowing a person to determine whether a Digital Human Twin or related posthumous representation should persist or be erased. ## Continuity Significance It is one of the clearest formulations joining autonomy to the continuing existence of a human-derived computational representation. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence The Human Digital Remains literature proposes updating digital identity and legacy rights to include continuation or erasure of Digital Human Twins. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note This is not presently a general enacted human right. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Posthumous Digital Human Twin|Posthumous Digital Human Twin]] · [[wiki/Right to Digital Death|Right to Digital Death]] · [[wiki/Positive Right to Continuity|Positive Right to Continuity]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] ## 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 -->