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Examining the Ethics of the Digital Afterlife Industry

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Author: Khadiza Laskor, CISA, CRISC, CDPSE, CISSP
Date Published: 1 May 2025
Read Time: 15 minutes

The digital afterlife (DA) industry refers to innovation associated with death and bereavement. This includes enterprises offering digital end-of-life planning and posthumous communication or interaction capabilities (figure 1). Other services overlap biotechnological efforts, such as mind cloning or brain emulation, to realize ambitions of digital immortality (DI)...

 

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