"I Died"

Harvest Of Stars, 30.

Download Guthrie says:

"'...I died.'" (p. 289)

Is this proposition self-contradictory? Someone who has died and has not been revived cannot speak. Download Guthrie means that the original Anson Guthrie died. But Guthrie's personality had been downloaded before the original died. Thus, these were two different copies of an individual. Their memories diverged from the moment of downloading. If an individual's memories until the moment of death could be downloaded into one and only one neural network, then it would seem to the consciousness in that network that it was the individual who had died although legally it would neither own the same property nor be guilty of the same crimes but should have the human right of continued existence.