SΔϕ-43 — Death, Afterlife, and the Commodification of Continuity (v1.0)

This working paper develops a structural account of death, afterlife, and continuity within the SΔϕ Formalism. It argues that death should not be treated merely as biological cessation or as a metaphysical mystery, but as the strongest form of irreversible closure. Within this framework, death marks the collapse of callability, the cessation of self-editing, and the end of internally authored reopening from within the closed path itself. From this basis, the paper reinterprets afterlife not first as a doctrinal claim about another world, but as a reopening structure formed against closure. Human beings do not only fear disappearance; they also confront unfinished justice, unresolved responsibility, broken…