End of Life in the Digital Age: Navigating New Spaces for Grieving and Ethical Dilemmas

The progressive digitization of social life has redefined the contours of intimacy, memory, and even death. While traditional offline contexts tend to render death a private and invisible phenomenon, digital platforms open new symbolic spaces for its expression, memorialization, and reconfiguration. This article explores the social, emotional, and imaginary dimensions of digitally mediated death, grounding the analysis in a transdisciplinary theoretical framework that intersects media studies, digital sociology, and posthuman ethics. Central to this investigation is a reflection on the digital farewell, understood as a complex sociotechnical process. This includes an ethical inquiry into the modes of posthumous presence and the proposal of algorithmic dulia.The article concludes by addressing the ethical implications of posthumous digital presence, questioning how algorithmic agents reshape our collective relationship with death, memory, and mourning.