This paper proposes an analysis of medication as revealing our relationship with the body and with time in a context of advanced modernity. It proposes a new look at the issue of the consumption of medications in the elderly by displacing the lens from medical discourse and public health (over-consumption, inadequate prescriptions, adherence, etc.) to another, more intimate perspective, by considering the ways that the elderly live their old age and the prospect of an imminent death. It contributes, in this respect, to the larger contemporary debate on medication as a social and cultural object in our advanced Western societies.