The Munich Air Disaster affords a unique commemorative network of the 'unexpectedly' dead spanning over fifty years. The social-material agency of networks which have emerged, or are emerging, represent the dead and the living. The networks have the potential to transform, not only commemorative practices, but also a wide range of social-material practices which both precede and follow biological death,  and  which produce 'immortality'. The findings of the research will reveal new theories and perceptions of commemoration to reveal how and why they are formed as social material practices. Such social material practices are pervasive but rarely analysed from an actor network theory perspective.