Jazigo perpétuo ou observações muito vivas acerca da morte.

Abstract

This work originated from a series of issues that occurred to the Author while still of his medical background. They became more acute to the medical in which, to the speculations of medical order, were added social-economic questions about the death. It has been found that death can not be viewed purely from biomedical aspects. Nor is it hidden in the social discourse, completely, as men want. It was discovered that medical discourse conceals death, either through the technification of that same discourse or through association with other discourses, notably that of law. It was found that the medical discourse, in its imposition before society, must be backed by the discourse of other Sciences, verbi gratia, the legal discourse. The importance of the study of death stems from the fact that death, in our view, is part of life, even in its apparent intangibility. Death enters into life as a concrete and striking fact. The discussion around the theme of death and, as a rule, little encouraged by the fact that death is not revealed by methods of study, on the one hand and on the other hand, is discarded from the daily lives of men. It was observed that the Historical Materialist method lends itself to the study of death only to the point where, at death, the notion of work is present. Since death is the total absence of work, in regard to the dead and in regard to Death itself, becomes that method useless to the study of such subject before the arguments that death causes. It was believed that the same occurs with the other possible methods. The possibility was raised that speculations raised by spiritual death could be answered only by religion or existentialism. Religion, based on the notion of eternal life, escapes the fact of dying, depriving it of the importance of being discussed in life, in life and in life, for death is a continuum of life. Existentialism, by putting death, life to death, and dying at the heart of its philosophical speculations, would, as a proposal, be better rendered as the prism through which death, in all its greatness, could be observed.