Notes on practices and representations regarding the burial of undead in the second half of the eighteenth century

Abstract

From a bibliographical study arising, especially the German and French literature, we propose some discussions about some changes in the perception of death and the undead in VXIII century in some European countries, mainly Germany, French and England. Medical science has engaged actively to resolve burial panic of undead whose situations were made known since antiquity. Care touted by medicine and Enlightenment thinkers of the period for the undead show a change in thinking and ways of behavior among humans, and the few Western society begins to treat the dead as an object to contemporaneity.