Lexicon · term
Ceremonial deletion
Also called Crypto-shred ritual.
Deletion designed as a rite of separation rather than a maintenance operation. The person performs the act at a moment they choose, may state in their own words what they are releasing, and the system answers truthfully and irreversibly, so that a chapter can be marked closed. The design consequences are the person’s ownership of the moment, the truthfulness of the system’s answer, and an uncrowded threshold with no retention argument at it.