TY - SER TI - Sobre las concepciones de la muerte: importancia para el medio hospitalario SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa; Bibliografía: p. 66 N2 - Attitudes towards death have undergone an evolution, accentuated in recent times, leading to behaviors of denial-rejection and perceptive defense against the phenomenon. Sociocultural changes in the perception of death have had direct consequences on users, health professionals, and the hospital system, which also participate in this maladaptive ritual of denial. With all this, dying has become something shameful and lonely, mechanical and dehumanized ER -