O gosto da morte na vida dos lugares

Abstract

Death is understood as the constituent of the life of places through flavor. To flavor places is to experience them not just as life, but also as death as it already is, in the condition of beingtoward-death (Heidegger) that we are. In this sense, the flavor of death is not only bitter, but it can also be of hope, breaking with the dichotomous association of death as an event that puts an end to something, and therefore is purely negative. At times, life itself is despair (Kierkegaard), not due to the fear of death, but due to its impossibility. Hence, the flavor of death is also part of the places and what we are, both for those who die and those who watch the death of others; for both in anguish and in search of the meaning of life. Thinking about the flavor of death can be a way of recognizing the hedonistic force that constitutes our geographies, in the space-in-between which is life.