Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes may refer to:

As a metaphor

• "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust", a phrase from the Anglican burial service, used sometimes to denote total finality. It is based on scriptural texts such as "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" (Genesis 3:19), and "I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee" (Ezekiel 28:18).

In literature

• Ashes to Ashes (play), by Harold Pinter
• Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, a book by Richard Kluger
• Ashes to Ashes (novel), by Tami Hoag

In television

• Ashes to Ashes (TV series), a spin-off from the BBC drama Life on Mars
• "Ashes to Ashes" (Only Fools and Horses), an episode of Only Fools and Horses
• "Ashes to Ashes" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• "Ashes to Ashes" (CSI: Miami), an episode of CSI: Miami
• Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes, 2006 made-for-television sequel in the Pumpkinhead franchise of horror films
• Ashes to Ashes (Columbo), a 1998 television movie

In films

• Ashes to Ashes (film), by Wayne Gerard Trotman
• Ashes to Ashes (2010 film), directed by Goldie Hawn

In music

• "Ashes to Ashes" (David Bowie song)
• "Ashes to Ashes" (Faith No More song)
• "Asche zu Asche", Ashes to Ashes in English, a song by Rammstein
• Ashes to Ashes (soundtrack album), a soundtrack album of the BBC series
• Ashes to Ashes (David Shankle Group album)
• A song from Blind Guardian's Somewhere Far Beyond album
• A 1991 song by the Norwegian band Apoptygma Berzerk
• A song by Woody Guthrie
• Ashes to Ashes, a 1990 album by Joe Sample
• Ashes to Ashes Live, a 2010 DVD by doom metal act Candlemass
• A song from the Tangerine Dream album Electronic Meditation
• The opening words of a stanza sometimes used at the end of St. Louis Blues

See also

• Ashes 2 Ashes, a story from the Army of Darkness comic spin-off
• Dust to Dust (disambiguation)