The migration of our personal, social, and professional lives into the digital sphere extends beyond the span of our biological existence. Increasingly, we leave behind an online trace that outlives its creators. Alongside this, we bequeath an ever-growing digital estate: documents, photographs, videos, and repositories of personal and familial memory, hosted within interconnected service ecosystems.

This evolving “digital footprint” prompts new legal, philosophical, psychological, and sociological inquiries into our relationship with mortality. The present project has therefore sought to cultivate a multidisciplinary lens to identify and examine the challenges that arise, within each digital environment, in relation to death.

Over the course of this two-year project—now culminating in its final conference—we have fostered a series of open-format workshops. These sessions have addressed the spectrum of proprietary and personal issues associated with digital death.

As a corollary, we have assembled—in a collective volume—the contributions that reflect this sustained process of inquiry. It is with great pleasure that we now present this work to the wider community. You are warmly invited to attend the launch session of this publication.

Please complete your registration to attend the conference and to receive the corresponding certificate.

Programme and registration: https://www.even3.pt/e/conferencia-final-do-projeto-morte-digital-questoes-pessoais-e-patrimoniais-706765

📍 24th of April, from 10:00 a.m., Hearing Room (0.04) of the School of Law of the University of Minho

Scientific Commission

Pedro Dias Venâncio

Tiago Branco da Costa

Sónia Moreira

Rossana Martingo Cruz

Diana Coutinho

Organisation

EDUM — School of Law of the University of Minho

JusGov — Research Centre for Justice and Governance

Support

FCT — Foundation for Science and Technology