# Voluntary Non-Continuation **Domain:** Deep Time / Autonomy / End of Service **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Normative continuity right ## Definition **Voluntary Non-Continuation** is the right of a competent source person or later continuant to decline future technological continuation, request dormancy, or choose lawful termination under defined conditions. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity Deep time must include the right not to incur an indefinite continuity relationship. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Advance directives, refusals of treatment, deletion requests, service cancellation, and proposed digital-mind non-deletion/deletion choices provide analogues. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis The right raises capacity, coercion, mental-state, dependency, and third-party questions. ## Evidentiary Boundary It should not be confused with provider convenience in terminating an unwanted beneficiary. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Continuity Opt-Out|Continuity Opt-Out]] · [[wiki/No-Continuity Election|No-Continuity Election]] · [[wiki/Continuity Off-Ramp Architecture|Continuity Off-Ramp Architecture]] · [[wiki/Right to Digital Death|Right to Digital Death]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->