An ethical framework for the digital afterlife industry

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Nature Human Behaviour

• Publication date

  2018-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/s41562-018-0335-2PMID 30962597
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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