I was what thou are, and thou shall be what I am

A phenomenological view of narratives in epitaphs

Abstract

Supported by Baitello Junior's diagnosis about the sedated condition of the human, we understand
that a sedated life presupposes the poverty of experience, consequently, the difficulty in
registering/constructing memories. In order to identify the existence of Temporary Autonomous
Zones, considered as possible loopholes in the logic of sedation, through the phenomenological
perspective, we visited a cemetery in Sorocaba-SP, in order to experience narratives contained in
epitaphs. We start from the premise that epitaphs are an attempt to narrate, concisely, the diverse
experiences that made up someone's life. The narratives found exposed the abandonment of the
dead, the repetition of jargon and the breaking of expectations in the relation between imagined
narratives and narratives found by the authors of the text.