I die, therefore I am: death as a journalistic happening

Abstract

Considering the different cultural meanings within everyday social practices and communication as a privilege medium for this observation, this article intends to explore the several implications of death as an expressive element in the constitution of the humane and the social, whose meanings are embedded and expressed in the enunciation of the journalistic narrative. In order to recognize the threads that compose those relation, it's necessary to observe the Human conception as a cultural being, aware ofits finite life to recognize the elements that form these relations. Furthermore, to understand the implications of this awareness in the social organization and the individual orientation. This article proposes to observe the role which communication plays as medium that elaborates, inscribe and reorder fundamental meanings to build social life.