In 2015, a ceremony was held in a long-term care center in Quebec City, in memory of the residents who had passed away over the course of the last year. This event was the occasion to observe firsthand the creation of a new ceremony for the dead, from conception to performance. The study of the broad characteristics of the ceremony, the sequences and the steps, the acts performed and the words spoken, as well as the symbols manipulated, offers the opportunity to investigate the relations with death and the dead, but also the way in which a long-term care center represents itself.