The project “Digital Death – issues of personhood and property” sought to promote a multidisciplinary reflection on the personal and patrimonial issues which, across the various digital contexts, arise upon the death of the homo digitalis: the digital footprint, as the enduring memory of an electronic expression of our personality, confronts us with new philosophical, psychological, sociological, and also legal questions in our relationship with death; the digital estate, as a universality of digitised assets capable of constituting a significant part of our patrimony, likewise raises issues relating to succession, taxation, and property.
Publisher Gestlegal
Editors Pedro Dias Venâncio | Tiago Branco da Costa | Sónia Moreira | Diana Coutinho | Rossana Martingo Cruz
Authors Anabela Gonçalves | Diana Coutinho | Hugo Cunha Lança | João Nuno Barros | Joel A. Alves | Jorge Castro Guedes | Luís M. Figueiredo Rodrigues | María Elena Cobas Cobiella | Patrícia Sousa Borges | Pedro Dias Venâncio | Rui Miguel Prista Patrício Cascão | Sónia Moreira | Tiago Branco da Costa | Vanessa Azevedo
Year 2026
Openly accessible via https://hdl.handle.net/1822/101487
The project “Digital Death – issues of personhood and property” sought to promote a multidisciplinary reflection on the personal and patrimonial issues which, across the various digital contexts, arise upon the death of the homo digitalis: the digital footprint, as the enduring memory of an electronic expression of our personality, confronts us with new philosophical, psychological, sociological, and also legal questions in our relationship with death; the digital estate, as a universality of digitised assets capable of constituting a significant part of our patrimony, likewise raises issues relating to succession, taxation, and property.
Publisher Gestlegal
Editors Pedro Dias Venâncio | Tiago Branco da Costa | Sónia Moreira | Diana Coutinho | Rossana Martingo Cruz
Authors Anabela Gonçalves | Diana Coutinho | Hugo Cunha Lança | João Nuno Barros | Joel A. Alves | Jorge Castro Guedes | Luís M. Figueiredo Rodrigues | María Elena Cobas Cobiella | Patrícia Sousa Borges | Pedro Dias Venâncio | Rui Miguel Prista Patrício Cascão | Sónia Moreira | Tiago Branco da Costa | Vanessa Azevedo
Year 2026
Openly accessible via https://hdl.handle.net/1822/101487