Abstract

MOREIRA, Virginia; BLOC, Lucas  and  ROCHA, Marcio. Meanings of finitude in the lived world of people with HIV/AIDS: a phenomenological study. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.2, pp. 554-571. ISSN 1808-4281.

This study further develops one of the themes emerging from a phenomenological longitudinal research on the stigma of the mental disease and HIV: death. It aims to investigate the meanings of death and finitude and its repercussions in the lived world of people living with HIV. We use the phenomenological mundane method and reanalyzed interviews with 50 patients with HIV in this research. The results show that the moment of discovery of the disease and the imminence of its symptoms and consequences are the moments described in which meanings of death are most present. Meanings of finitude impact the lived world of the respondents and the possibility of imminent death has become a factor of suffering and of aggravation of the disease.

Keywords : Death; HIV / AIDS; Phenomenological method.

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