METAPHYSICS OF DEATH

Abstract

The phenomenon of modernity changed the course previously followed by death. In previous centuries, one used to die in the familiarity of one's own home and death had become a spectacle attended by the community of the living. After the twentieth century death became cold, distant and impersonal. The search for the sense of being, however, remained basically unchanged; since Dasein is a “being-toward-death”, it is inherent to the human being the elaboration of ontological questions, which can rise angst and denial. The present article intends to understand, in a general way, the relation between the heideggerian’s Dasein and the phenomenon of death, starting from the idea that such association is a metaphysical reality.