É tarde, já vou indo : ensaio sobre a morte assistida e suas subtipologias em uma abordagem comunicacional pragmatista

Abstract

The research focuses on analyzing the event of assisted death in its communicational dimension. We saw the possibility of communication, as a field of knowledge, to categorize this practice. This was due to the observation of the relationship between the individual, who must negotiate with the environment in order to produce a result on their own daily life, and the environment, which affects the individual, such as: drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, autoimmune diseases, degenerative diseases, serious accidents, old age, etc. This has led to the possibility of creating methodological tools, based on pragmatist communication, called subtypes of assisted death, which enable a communicational analysis of the practice of assisted death. The categories of analysis are: a) death's sociability, which deals with the processes of collaboration and cooperation between individuals who wish to die, b) thought death, which aims to understand how individuals use reflective thought to question life and its maintenance, and finally, c) programmed death, which focuses on the actions of individuals to achieve assisted death within a horizon of investigation into the consequences of this action. Our methodological movement is deweyan instrumentalism.