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Resumen

The presence of death, grief and loss are structured in different dynamics and contexts, opening a range of manifestations that mark the human being and generate demands that impact mental and emotional health. The present research aims to promote reflections on finitude and its relationship with loss, approaching death and mourning as main markers of this process, from the presentation of its conceptions and analysis of the public's perception on the subject according to a social research through of electronic form, contemplating the symbolic construction as a way of understanding the relationships that the subject develops. Although there is a manifestation of a distance, the dynamics of finitudes that mark the construction of meanings from unique experiences are recognized, which was expanded with the pandemic and reflect in the identification of the existence of a diversity of ways of being in the face of contact with death.