The aim of this chapter is to explore the way in which, in ageing, the body reclaims one. Drawing principally on the work of Jean Améry, I explore this notion, developing it in the context of the mystery of one's relation to one's body: one is one's body, but one has one's body, or so I suggest, and this fractured and puzzling relation we have to ourselves is part of what ageing makes us realize and acknowledge. I further relate ageing to our mortality, and close by exploring it in the context of the ageing of the face, drawing on some reflections on self-portraiture to help clarify the sense in which the ageing body demands a certain redemption which we can seek to respond to or refuse.