EDUCAÇÃO PARA A MORTE: DA AUSÊNCIA DA TEMATIZAÇÃO DA MORTE NO CURRÍCULO DO CURSO DE FORMAÇÃO DE SOLDADOS DA POLÍCIA MILITAR DO ESTADO DO ESPÍRITO SANTO

Abstract

The research will be concerned with “education for death”, especially considered as a curricular component in the Training Course of Soldiers of the Military Police of Espírito Santo (PMES). Through bibliographic research, one is interested in the way individuals at risk - workers and servants committed to the safety of people in the public space - deal with the experience of death. Through documentary research, he investigates to what extent the training that is made available to PMES's servers, especially soldiers, empowers them and prepares them to deal with death in the daily performance of their function. To do so, initially discusses the problem of death and human finitude and its implications in the context of the Military Police. In addition, it addresses the issue of the meaning of life, with emphasis on religion as a privileged place of production of meaning. He thus considers the contributions of Mircea Eliade to the understanding of religion as a factor inextricably linked to the production of meaning; Luc Ferry's theory of what he sees as a new source of meaning in the contemporary world; also the contributions of Martin Heidegger, in the understanding of being-to-death. Finally, considering the theme of death, the research outlines an analysis of the PM-ES Soldiers Training Course, based on its curricular matrix.