Death tech or death technology are the use of modern technologies in funeral industry and other issues related to death, dying and deceased.The “DeathTech” Startups Disrupting The Funeral Industry WorldcrunchThe Future of Death Tech Has No Rules—Yet, Wired These include such things as handling of will writing, planning, funerals, inheritance of digital assets, and human composting.Cate Lawrence, Beyond the grave: How deathtech startups are transforming what happens when we die, tech.eu, April 13, 2023
One aspect of Death tech is "digital afterlife": the presence of the deceased persona in the Internet.Puzio, A. (2023). When the Digital Continues after Death: Ethical Perspectives on Death Tech and the Digital Afterlife. Communicatio Socialis, 56(3), 427-436. The law of digital afterlife: the Chinese experience of AI ‘resurrection’ and ‘grief tech’ , International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Volume 33, 2025, eaae029,
See also Farewill Digital immortality Thanatosensitivity Past Post
Further reading Matthias Meitzler, Jessica Heesen, Martin Hennig, Regina Ammicht Quinn: "Digital Afterlife and the Future of Collective Memory", in: Memory Studies Review, 1 (2024), no. 2, pp. 274–291.
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