Today, a culture based on the ideal of consumption and well-being prevails, where social recognition is associated with the idea of success and happiness. Therefore, it is not convenient for the subject to talk about his suffering. If death generates suffering, it must be silenced. This look at death is attested by Ariès (2003), who says that in contemporary society talk about death is a taboo. The ban on death enters the teaching-learning process of health professionals, especially doctors. This interdiction is part of the modern civilizing process and linked to the achievements of scientific enlightenment that socially created the loneliness of the dying and mourning. There was a weakening of public rituals around death and, consequently, a strengthening of medicalization by science. Death became medical, through technologies, as well as the self. However, there is no denying a sadness generated by the death of a family member. Freud (1996j/1917) refers to the examination of reality and the time factor. The author points out that it is only entering the content with the feelings that involve the loss of a loved one that allows the elaboration of grief. Given this, the present work aims to problematize how death and grief are portrayed today and in hospital institutions and their impact on people who have an experience of losing a loved one . The research consists of a theoretical study on the subject, based on the available bibliography on the subject, with psychoanalytic theory as its main theoretical axis.