O cotidiano da morte em São Cristóvão/SE e o começo da segregação dos mortos em cemitérios extramuros : (1843-1858)

Abstract

Dying, as well as the rites and feelings towards death and the dead body, took other directions during the 19th century. The medicalization of death, in addition to a new olfactory sensitivity, has given people a new view of the dead body and its secretions. Based on hygienist prerogatives, churches and cities should undergo sanitary inspections for the benefit of public health. In first place should be the health of the living and no longer the spiritual health of the dead. Through the description of the preparations for death, the choice of mortuary clothes and the burial place, we will see how the daily life of death was in São Cristóvão from 1843 to 1858. Next, we will analyze how the process of expulsion of the dead took place inside the churches and their consequent segregation into extramural cemeteries in the Mother City of Sergipe