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With the Covid 19 epidemic and the daily death toll, it seems that death is re-entering the public arena. But how does it do so? Encrypted and anonymous or singular and human? The mantra of biosecurity policy is the “securitization of the living” because it reduces the human being to his or her biological component, thus contributing to a form of dehumanization of death and the conditions of dying. In the face of biosecurity injunctions and the risk of erasing singular death, other resources can be called upon. They emerge from individual stories that reveal both this phenomenon of dehumanization and the ethical surge of individual subjects in the face of the unacceptable. Another paradigm is possible, based on and serving the authentically human.