Introduction: Aging and dying are part of the intrinsic process to the human being. Concomitantly with increasing longevity, the proximity of individuals to the process of death becomes more evident, which is an inherent condition for the human being. The understanding of temporality, including the finitude and death of the human being, is little discussed among people because of the feelings associated with loss and the perception of their own finitude. Objective: to reflect on aging and finitude, relating three types of narratives, Roth's literary narrative, Elias's sociological narrative and Sacks's autobiographical narrative, these being "Patrimony", "The solitude of the dying" and "Gratitude", respectively.Method: This is a narrative review, with a qualitative approach, that allows the correlation of several productions, with the purpose of identifying recurrent themes, which refer to new perspectives, contributing to the consolidation of knowledge in a given area. The analysis will be carried out based on bibliographical perspective and content analysis.
Result:Five thematic categories related to finitude were emerged during aging: (1) The different facets of aging; (2) The finite process during human aging; (3) The process of caring for aging; (4) Aging vs. Death; (5) The arrival of the end.
Conclusion:Understanding and discussing finitude and death is essential to demystify the taboos and myths that guide them in order to build a society composed of people who understand death as a natural process of life