Despite the prevalence of violent and exaggerated deaths in Disney animations, they have a reputation for being magical and wholesome. This disparity is largely due to the various ways of enchantment that are used to Disneyfy death, which is to say make it marketable, controlled and entertaining. Disneyfied death can hence be simultaneously thrilling, threatening and full of life-affirming wonder. Research has already shown that Disney deaths are frequently supernatural and sensational, but the exact ways in which death becomes enchanted has remained largely unexamined. Drawing on recent theoretical discussions about the dynamics of enchantment and reflecting on cultural discourses surrounding mortality, this article identifies three models of re-enchanting death – and the aesthetics associated with them – in the selected films. The first makes death reversible, for instance through resurrections or otherwise postponed inevitably, which can be understood as a form of death denial. The second suggests that death is not the annihilation of life, for existence continues in the afterlife and supernatural encounters are possible. The third proposes that death has a finality that holds a special power to enhance the meaning of life. While these approaches vary in their messaging about how to understand and approach death, each contains its own variation of the re-enchantment narrative.