The new ways in which we deal with corpses have a lot to say about our current relationship to death. If we accept that traditional ritualization, which is what drives the organisation of funerals, has now been replaced by other forms of socialization, we still need to define, nonetheless, the role we intend the dead body to play. Traditionally, through the corpse itself and the transformations it had to undergo, it was the break, the severing of a relationship, which was signified thanks to the elaboration of a relationship to death. Having been mediated, this relationship created distance, not closeness. Today, by placing completely to one side the dead body as an entity not disconnected from life, it is the place reserved for death which is in question. What happens now with the unavoidable stage of “separation” ? Beginning with observations on the status and the destination of human ashes, to which I will add other illustrations, I will show that they all stem from an attempt to form one body with the dead. Operating under the name of observance and respect for the body, this new manner of contemplating the “remains” indicates that the once intangible line between life and death is currently being obliterated.