Status: IN
In replicated and versioned storage, deletion is modeled as appending metadata (tombstones, delete markers, new versions) rather than destroying data, because physical removal would cause resurrection from replicas or loss of restore capability.
both depth-1 conclusions independently arrive at the same principle — never physically destroy data — but for complementary reasons (anti-resurrection vs non-destructive restore); combined they show this is a fundamental constraint of any system that replicates or versions state
Depends on (SL): soft-delete-prevents-distributed-resurrection, append-only-versioning-makes-restore-non-destructive