Sepulta-a-dor: reflexões sobre os possíveis efeitos do trabalho como coveiro.

Abstract

The present research had as objective to investigate the possible influences of gravedigger activity on the mental health of the subject that acts in such craft. To initiate, a discussion about labor as a health or illness generating factor was held. Soon afterwards, another discussion on the routine and social importance of the occupation took place. To do so, a bibliographic review on national publications from 2013 to 2018 in SciELO, BVS, BDTD, CAPES and Google Academic platforms was made, utilizing key words such as 'Gravedigger' and 'burier', which aimed to deal with professional gravediggers. With this in mind, a critical analysis of the results, categorizing the most relevant points, was constructed. As a consequence, a low number of publications that deal with this thematic were identified, which indicates the social invisibility experienced by those workers, who end up suffering with stygmas attributed to that occupation by cultural imagination. With this, it is worthy to emphasize the necessity of more researches which investigate in what manners those workers subjectivate their living at work and in what manners it reverberates in their lives as well as interventions that allow a reflection on the assignment accomplished.