Your will governs your property. This governs you.
AI can now reconstruct a convincing version of a person — voice, face, writing style, a conversational "continuation" — from the data they leave behind. Estate law moves assets. It says almost nothing about whether the dead may be reanimated, by whom, and on what terms. PlenaProof records the directive that fills that gap.
A will distributes what you owned. It does not ordinarily speak to your synthetic continuation: whether a company, a platform, or a grieving family member may train a model on you, publish your voice, or operate an agent that speaks as you after death. Publicity-rights law is uneven across jurisdictions and slow. What survives the moment it is needed is a dated directive, held by an authority you named.
A Posthumous Identity Directive: your stated wishes on reproduction of your voice, face, writing, and persona after death; what is permitted, what is refused ("do not resurrect"), and any licensing terms; who holds the authority to enforce the directive (executor, estate, named steward); and a timestamp. Preserved, and checkable by those who later confront a request to reproduce you.
The PLENA six-part grammar, applied to posthumous identity.
You, while living and competent.
The named executor, estate, or steward after death.
Specific uses of voice, face, writing, persona.
Permitted, refused, licensed, time-limited.
The dated directive, in durable storage.
A verification a platform or family member can act on.
Anyone who wants a clear posthumous-likeness wish on record — for themselves or for a loved one.
Those who need an authoritative directive to act on when a request to reproduce the deceased arrives.
Those whose voice and likeness carry value and risk after death — and whose audiences may demand a "continuation."
Does not replace — wills, estate law, or publicity/personality-rights law.
Complements — them, by recording the posthumous-likeness directive those instruments rarely capture.
Owns — the dated do-not-resurrect / posthumous-licensing directive and its authority chain.
Rule — PlenaProof records the wish; it does not litigate it.
Pairs with the PLENA Inheritance Protocol (succession of property), the PlenaProof Vault and Life Proof Archive (handover), PLENA CONSERVA (preservation), and issues a VRX-5 AI-era trust receipt. Public verification at Public Verify. In preparation.