This paper aims to reflect on how the narratives about digital technologies intervene in shaping the relationship with death within so-called "new religious movements" (NRMs), whose very raison d'être is grounded in such, and advanced, technologies. While it is true that death constitutes the only destiny shared by all human beings - from the decomposition of the body to the cessation of one's social and cultural presence - it is equally true that this process does not unfold in the same way for everyone: the processes of "thanatometamorphosis", which add a cultural dimension to the biological transformation of the corpses (from mummification to thanotopraxis), develop differently according to additional variables, foremost socio-economic status. Moving from a cross-cultural, diachronical and comparative perspective, the paper will explore how data, information and stored files, sometimes seen as sort of 'watchman' of a person's essence, may be understood as capable not just of bringing individuals back to life - at least in the narratives of so-called NRMs. Data emphasize and represent a person's status post-mortem, making the imaginative dimension underpinning this ambition accompanied not only by a significant semantic framework of spiritual derivation, but also by concrete and worldly factors such as the resources available. Money seems once again to give to the believers the possibility to buy immortality, so, from this point of view, is death really a great leveller?