This paper approaches dead bodies as material traces of necropolitics in the Mediterranean border regime. The ways in which dead bodies are handled reveal a lack of state responsibility and the abandonment of migrants as a ›disposable‹ population. I introduce the notion of deathcare to unpack practices of Search and Rescue NGOs on board rescue ships. Activists develop respons-ability for the dead and build connections with them. In this context, I understand deathcare as resistance, challenging necropolitical logics in the border regime. Based on interviews with four activists, I describe practices of preparation and decision-making around deathcare, documentation and visibilization as well as material aspects of hands-on deathcare and mourning. Deathcare challenges the necropolitical imperative of abandonment, as activists enter into relations with the dead and build a community. Through deathcare, as I argue, necropolitics become visible, because care enables dead bodies to ›speak‹ about the policies that killed them.