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title: "Digital afterlife: the ethics we hold to"
description: "The rules we keep when building memorial and afterlife services."
tags: ["digital-afterlife", "memorial", "ethics", "privacy"]
canonical_url: https://stillherememory.com/blog/digital-afterlife-ethics-we-follow
I spent the last week going deep on the ethics of digital afterlife services, and a few things caught me off guard. Most guides skip the boring parts, which is exactly where the real problems show up later.
One issue that nobody warns you about is asking for consent before anything is created in someone name. People treat it as a checkbox, then wonder why nothing holds together. Another that bit me was never faking the voice or messages of a person who cannot reply. It sounds minor until a busy week exposes it. The part I underestimated the most was giving people a real way to delete or opt out.
My fix was boring on purpose. I opened the settings I already had and fixed the smallest thing first, then built one habit around it. Before adding anything else I checked whether readers actually noticed a difference.
For stillherememory.com this is not optional housekeeping. An hour spent now beats a much larger cleanup six months later.
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