Adopting as a corner-stone the expression “dying with dignity” which is widespread in the media in France, the author wonders how the experience of death can constitute today a place of convergence for the dignity both of man and God. Although he does not abandon the ontological approach to dignity such as it is described in the Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, he rather favours a clinical approach to it : it is through the concrete experience of being respected and accompanied as a human being that the patient grasps that something beyond ailment exists which is capable of maintaining him in a state of dignity worthy of a human being. It is this same behaviour that also testifies to the dignity of God who, in his kenosis, expresses his capacity not to remain an outsider to the human adventure.