The series Six Feet Under, dedicated to the daily life of a family of undertakers, offers a new and original approach to the corpse. A raw approach with details of the science of body preservation, it openly shows bodies, revealing the true role of embalming : erasing death from the dead body. Whether for bereaving families or for the TV viewer, the vision of a corpse is impossible without aesthetics and imagination which transform it into a body. To face the sight of a dead body, a visual filter is necessary which keeps the corpse at a distance maintaining the illusion of facing it. Our article studies some of these imaginaries : commercial, theatrical, grotesque, phantasmic, serial.