Production of an end-of-life curriculum vitae through the pedagogical apparatus of the media

This paper analyzed how the discourse on death circulates within the Brazilian media, thereby producing an end-of-life curriculum vitae. It stemmed from document research in which the theoretical-methodological reference framework was the thinking of Michel Foucault. The empirical material was composed of ten reports that circulated in the magazines Época and Veja between 2002 and 2012. To delimit the corpus for the analysis, discursive mapping was elaborated using the ATLAS.ti 7 software. The findings were subjected to discourse analysis inspired by Foucault’s thinking. The acceptance of death and its domestication appeared as strategies produced by the State and legitimized through the media. These informative Brazilian magazines produced end-of-life curricula vitae, thereby teaching and publicizing acceptance of death and calling on subjects to govern their own end. Those who escape from this discursive order are considered to be "abnormal" in the end-of-life context.

本文分析了死亡话语在巴西媒体中的传播路径，并由此构建了生命终局话语范本。本研究依托文献研究展开，其理论与方法论参照框架源自米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）的思想。研究的经验材料取自2002年至2012年间在巴西杂志《Época》与《Veja》中传播的10篇报道。为划定分析的语料库范围，本研究借助ATLAS.ti 7软件完成了话语映射工作。研究发现采用福柯式话语分析方法进行阐释。结果显示，死亡接纳与死亡驯化作为国家主导的策略，并经由媒体获得合法性，成为该话语体系的核心内容。这些兼具资讯性的巴西杂志构建了生命终局话语范本，借此传播并普及死亡接纳理念，号召个体自主掌控自身的生命终局。脱离该话语秩序的个体，在生命终局语境下会被视为"异常者"。