Death tech or death technology are the use of modern technologies in funeral industry and other issues related to death, dying and deceased.[1][2] These include such things as handling of will writing, planning, funerals, inheritance of digital assets, and human composting.[3]
One aspect of Death tech is “digital afterlife“: the presence of the deceased persona in the Internet.[4][5]
See also
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.
References
- ^ The “DeathTech” Startups Disrupting The Funeral Industry Worldcrunch
- ^ The Future of Death Tech Has No Rules—Yet, Wired
- ^ Cate Lawrence, Beyond the grave: How deathtech startups are transforming what happens when we die, tech.eu, April 13, 2023
- ^ Puzio, A. (2023). When the Digital Continues after Death: Ethical Perspectives on Death Tech and the Digital Afterlife. Communicatio Socialis, 56(3), 427-436. doi:10.5771/0010-3497-2023-3-427
- ^ 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, doi:10.1093/ijlit/eaae029