How do the deceased live on in the throats, ears, voices, and hands of Muslim deathworkers—those who wash, recite to, and shroud the dead? How are the touch and sounds provided by deathworkers believed to provide deceased individuals with a beautiful death? This paper ruminates on questions of tactility, sound, sounding, aurality, and care labors for the literal posthuman in contemporary Turkish cities, coasts, and seas. As an ethnomusicologist and a sound studies scholar, I bring an ear attuned to critical listening at the threshold of lives and afterlives to this panel on the regenerative forces of death and dying in the Middle East. Based on over sixteen months of fieldwork in Istanbul and along Turkey’s Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, this paper interrogates pivotal intersections of vocal recitation, touch, several forms of water, heat, sweat, soil, and earth as they manifest in Muslim funerary rituals. The key component from which this paper’s claims are generated is the training and certification I received by the Turkish state in 2016 to work as a gassale—one who washes and shrouds the (female) dead. As a deathworker, I have cleansed, purified (via giving abdest or wudu), recited over, sung to, and shrouded dozens of deceased individuals. I have laid infants, girls, and women who passed from all forms of illness or accident to rest with my body, ears, and voice. My ethnography includes my work with Sunni and Shia rituals conducted under the umbrella of the Turkish state, as well as laboring in liminal coastal regions to bring refugee dead out of the seas to lay them to rest in Turkish cemeteries. Drawing on these experiences and my broader ethnographic project, this talk demonstrates the crucial need for new theoretical frameworks to understand the intersection of dying and what I call posthumous aurality—the knowledge that the dead can hear, feel touch, smell, and taste. Rethinking normative assumptions and approaches to death and funerary rituals, what is at stake in this paper is a new methodology for listening beyond the end of life, and a theorization of how the deceased live on in the sense experiences of deathworkers.