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This paper examines how emerging technologies intersect with the concept of human dignity at the end of life, proposing an expanded notion of post-biographical dignity.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S1478951525100990_sec2b\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Ethical-philosophical analysis based on critical readings of AI ethics, narrative medicine, and the philosophy of technology.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S1478951525100990_sec3c\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>While digital tools such as ePROMs and ePREMs offer potential for richer, more person-centred care, they also risk reducing patients to data points and predictive profiles. Digital processes increasingly shape the narrative, vulnerability, and memory of the dying person. Post-biographical dignity calls for a reconceptualization of care that includes memory, relational continuity, and ethical engagement with digital remains.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S1478951525100990_sec4d\">\n                    <jats:title>Significance of Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>End-of-life care in the age of AI must move beyond autonomy-focused ethics to encompass the narrative, relational, and posthumous dimensions of dignity. A critical, philosophically informed ethics is essential to prevent depersonalisation in digitally mediated care.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1017\/s1478951525100990","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,27]],"date-time":"2025-10-27T11:39:52Z","timestamp":1761565192000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Post-biographical dignity in the age of artificial intelligence: Narrative, ePROMs and ethical challenges in end-of-life care"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4115-5012","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abel","family":"Garc\u00eda Abejas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias da Sa\u00fade da Universidade da Beira Interior"},{"name":"Hospital Lus\u00edadas Lisboa"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David Geraldes","family":"Santos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Beira Interior"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Helder","family":"Mota-Filipe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Lisboa"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"\u00c0ngels Salvador","family":"Verg\u00e9s","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Board of Directors, Innohealth Academy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"S1478951525100990_ref14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.b49"},{"key":"S1478951525100990_ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/acprof:oso\/9780195176216.001.0001"},{"key":"S1478951525100990_ref26","volume-title":"As if Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence","author":"Shadbolt","year":"2024"},{"key":"S1478951525100990_ref31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-94-007-6970-0"},{"key":"S1478951525100990_ref23","volume-title":"New Developments in the Philosophy of AI. 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