This isa study,from a phenomenological approach of the impact produced in the bodies of women who have lost theirs husbands as a result of violent events. We describe its effects as a series of perceptions that leave a mark both internally and externally in the physical, family and social bodies of its victims. The image of the mutilated body is a passage to horror and leads the way into the ominous. The act of grieving, understood as the process of allowing the dead to die completely requires the unity of the body in the representation the grieving person needs to put together. The body of the dead, either disappeared or dismembered tendsto be reestablished symbolically through different practices of symbolic animation.