# Right to Digital Death **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Autonomy / Erasure **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Normative continuity concept ## Definition The **Right to Digital Death** is the claimed right to prevent or end unauthorized posthumous digital representation, reconstruction, or agentic continuation. ## Continuity Significance A legitimate continuity regime must protect opting out as seriously as opting in. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Existing deletion, postmortem-data directives, digital-testament prohibitions, and proposed continuation/erasure rights provide partial analogues. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Digital death must specify scope: deleting a replica differs from deleting historical records or a later autonomous person. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Right to No Reconstruction|Right to No Reconstruction]] · [[wiki/Right to Continuation or Erasure|Right to Continuation or Erasure]] · [[wiki/Continuity Opt-Out|Continuity Opt-Out]] · [[wiki/No-Continuity Election|No-Continuity Election]]