The ageing process has been frequently approached by the mass media. At the same time the images disseminated by the media refer predominatly to ideas of youth, beauty and consumption. In that context, where the efficiency of the Pension System is also debated, retirement stopped being one right provided by the Government and became a necessity, highly advertised. This dissertation describes the performed study on the presentations of ageing, advertised by private Pension Funds, recognizing consumption as a symbolic system and treating mass media as a peculiar dimension of the contemporary society, where concepts conceived from that symbolic structure are produced and disseminated. The advertisements studied from national circulation magazines - Veja, Época, Isto É and Exame - present the story of a fight against death as a explicitly battle to deny the disappearance of the individual or as a strategy for affirm (establish) the permanence of its identity.