Dependency and Scope

0.1 What this paper does. It derives the ethic of the exit — dignity, the three boundary states, and compassionate exit — from the operator geometry, with no appeal to authority outside {S, B, R, C}. The derivation rests on operator sovereignty and the one-interior identity that grounds the terminal ethic in AP43 §9; “Derived” throughout this paper means forced by that structure, not asserted.

0.2 Dependencies. Load-bearing: AP02 (operator sovereignty, the exit condition) and AP33 (below-ε jurisdiction, consent as modelling capacity, the three agency states). Cross-reference: AP32 (correction hierarchy), AP35 (economic sovereignty), AP37 (body-as-operator, no-return surface). The terminal ethic (kindness as structural alignment). No result requires a paper outside this list.

0.3 Kill-switch summary. Eight switches, KS-38.1 through KS-38.8, all live. KS-38.6 (disability conflation) is NON-NEGOTIABLE; KS-38.8 (death is operator exit) is the master. Stated in full in the Kill Switches section.

0.4 Debts. Three computational debts, all named and located: Debt 37 (modelling-capacity test), Debt 38 (temporal-gap specification), Debt 39 (dependent-transfer protocol).

0.5 A note on numbering. The final edition’s body begins at section 2; there is no separate section 1. The foundational framing — death as operator exit — is carried in the Artist’s Note and the Summary, and is the claim KS-38.8 guards.