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While digital data constitute a part of the inheritance of the deceased since the Lemaire law in France (2016), they are, more than a legacy issue, subject to collection, safeguarding, or archiving, the meanings and value of which are specific to everyone. As tools for remembrance and memory, these practices contribute to the construction of the mode of existence of the deceased, rematerialized to compensate for the fragility of the digital. These rematerialization actions reveal one of the paradoxes surrounding funeral rituals. Digital technology, which reinforces the recalcitrance of data, permeabilizes the boundaries between the dead and the living. The collection of data is intended to both bring the dead back to life and to keep the active dead at a distance, especially when their data cause suffering.