Several authors have already studied the links between the narrative experience and the death representation and, based on it, this research makes a second thematic share: the epidemic phenomenon of AIDS in the last two decades of the XX century. For the first analysis some works have been chosen (in different medias) made by HIV-positive persons in the circumstance of the terminal diagnosis. From this group of works it has been selected the Savage Nights of Cyril Collard as a case study useful for analyzing the aspects involved on the act of telling histories in the postmodernity witch emerges in a very particular way in the dealing with this illness.