(Re) pensando a morte: uma análise sócio-histórica sobre a relação do homem com sua condição de finitude

Abstract

It seems to be a big estrangement and difficulty conceming death in contemporaneity. We mostly think death as physical and biological event, neglecting our own ontological condition as finite beings. Discoursing phenomenology and propositioning to widen a comprehesion of death while a phenomenon crossed by historical, social and, mostly, as na inalienable condition of existence, it was conducted na integrative bibliographic revision of scientific productions from the last five years (2013-2017) adding complementary basal publications of previous years considering their relevance to the proposed. Due to the pertinence and convergence with the objective of the presente study, we used the following descriptors: Death and Antiquity, Death and the Middle ages, Death and Modernity, Death and Comtemporaneity. Considering the survey, we can conclude that the phenomenon of death in each sócio-historical period presentes certain specificities and nowadays it is featured by multiple ways intending to signify and resignify man’s condition as a fine being. This study substantiates death as a phenomenon crossed by historical, social and cultural chenges, either seen as familiar or as somenting feared and unquestionable.In contemporaneity it can be seen some exacerbation of fear, avoidance and even denial of man’s inherent condition of finitude.