Ecological transmission is what inheritance becomes when a society understands that a life’s value was never confined to its financial estate. When a participant dies, their geometry has already altered the ecology — the people they developed remain, and so do knowledge, institutions, relationships, children, projects, and art. So the model pays deliberate attention to capacity transfer before death, asking questions financial inheritance never captures.
The questions it asks
What do you know that should survive you? Who can carry this function next? What relationships should be connected? What unfinished work can be transferred? What mistakes should the ecology not repeat? Answering them is how the development a society invested in a person keeps returning after the person is gone — the last expression of reciprocity, and the reason your becoming is the field’s becoming even at the end. See the arc of a life.