The Death in Contemporary Days

Abstract

This literature review talks about death and the changes on its concept and meaning over time, aiming at relating this to the different social organizations and issues that involve the individuality and the human finitude. It intends to provoke the reflection about such a respected theme for all of us, related to our own contingency. In this sense, it brings several perspectives through different author’s voices, seeking to understand how we got into this contemporary stage where death must be forgotten at any cost. It is a forbidden subject even being, inevitably, part of our daily lives, and whose shield must insure, more and more, the non-participation and non-involvement of the people. Thereby, understanding the death past stages, from its closeness to its banishment of the social life, is a necessary condition to analyzing our own end, and the end of our own individuality.
Keywords: Death, History of Death, Finitude.