This conclusion reflects on the motivations of those who make and view documentary death and on the broad cultural and political work these maligned moving images attempt. Dying in Full Detail ends with an acknowledgment that even the recorded reminders of human mortality written about here are themselves mortal. While an aura of death denial pervades the public’s attitude toward digital recordings—thought immortal, never to curl and decay like celluloid film—the files that store death footage face their own deaths through, for example, neglect in the endless process of migration to new formats that is necessary to sustain them.