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TOCCI D, Napoleón; BRACHO L, Cira  e  LEAL G, Jesús. Axiological perspective of lifeless human body. Salus [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.2, pp.7-12. ISSN 1316-7138.

Death occurs in a succession of stages of rapidly and progressive destructuration of the integrated functioning of the body, as biological unit. Under this biomedical paradigm, lifeless body of a person is still seen as an object, just as it is perceived from the Cartesian view. By seeing that everyday lifeless human bodies are disrespected, degraded and viewed as mere objects, we motivated ourselves to carry out this work, whose objective was to interpret the meaning assigned to the phenomenon from the perspective of the study subjects. This study was guided under the phenomenological epistemic matrix. Herbert Spiegelberg design was used and depth interview to seven subjects linked to the phenomenon; intentionally selected. They described the phenomenon from their own experiences, and through information processing emerged three categories: lifeless human body, treatment of lifeless human body, and death. From here, it arouse the emerging theory: values inherent in the human condition were assigned to the lifeless human body as love, respect and dignity, which have significance beyond the physical death of people, and involve a treatment with considerations inherent in the right to die with dignity. That vision of preserving human condition as a transitional state between life and a posthumous existence in an unknown territory reflects a prolongation of life, just as the feeling of not leaving the memory of the deceased.

Palavras-chave : Health workers; lifeless human body; phenomenology.

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