Abstract

BARBOSA, Leopoldo Nelson Fernandes; FRANCISCO, Ana Lúcia  and  EFKEN, Karl Heinz. Death and life: the human´s dialetic. Aletheia [online]. 2008, n.28, pp. 32-44. ISSN 1413-0394.

This assay has as objective to bring reflections on the practical one of the hospital psychologist next to patients and family, which, ahead of the process of the adoecimento, live deeply intense feelings and conflicts desperted for the death possibility. Although the death and dying are inevitable and inherent phenomena our human condition, to reflect on the finitude human being is something challenging. In our society, to face the possibility of our proper death and the people who we love is almost not support, over all when if it takes in consideration the current cultural context where we live. In the case of the suffering, or of the hospitalization experience, we observe that this situation in approaches them to more intense internal reflections and that, at many moments, people all change a way of living. Each one reacts to this situations of way singular and in standardization makes them to reflect on of techniques and concepts regarding illness and of sick person that can in such a way imprison our form to see the person who suffers how much in hindering them to hear what it is really transferred; to hear a being in devir.

Keywords : Suffering; Death; Finitude; Human condition.

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