"Over my dead body": the corpse, the sepulcher and the philosophy of law.

Abstract

The author submits "the corpse" to an iusphilosophical reflection by emphasizing how our attitude in this area reveals our humanity and our process of humanization, as well as our psychological and cultural attitudes. First, the author opens a reflection on the corpse in an archaeological and historical- as well as - anthropological and cultural context. Afterwards, he successively examines the corpse in the sepulcher, as a "taboo" object and finally as "desire" rising from ourselves or from others. The author places, literally, the corpse in its place before the law without ever examining positive law. The aim of the article is to make the reflection on the law towards its intimacy as to our conscience of humanity.