ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines that the informational objects are understood as constitutive of persons having a distinctive importance to moral practices of remembrance, and existing norms of disposal regarding physical estates that are not adequate to deal. Digital legacies are composed of informational objects, which in turn draws towards the fairly widespread ideas about ownership of such objects, with rights of disposal being analogous to the rights of disposal conferred by paradigmatic property rights. The digital legacies are conceptualised along the lines ending up running into serious disanalogies with offline property. The chapter provides some morally relevant features of digital remains that are not captured by the existing beliefs and practices around the disposal of physical estates. The survival of a digital artefact depends on physical factors like security and redundancy of servers and networks. The specific form of the artefact also determines the extent to which it continues to preserve the phenomenality of the dead.
