Resumen

SANCHEZ TRUJILLO, Luis Antonio. Apuntes para una necrología de la muerte. LiminaR [online]. 2008, vol.6, n.1, pp.114-124. ISSN 2007-8900.

To transform death to the sacred, has been the common way to grant some sense to its experience, but at the present time, in addition to this strategy, that rises up and is recreated are beliefs like "Santa Muerte". We are attempting a negation and to a process of commercializing that take us to a position of not to mention it, because of the fear of invoking it. From another perspective, the official doctrine of the State has appropriated the use of the death as a strategy of control. The dread of being attacked, the vulnerability that the situation of naturalized and constant violence leads us to place only in the State, the ability to protect us.

Palabras llave : death; Santa Muerte; mercantilation; institutionalization; death's conscience.