: This academic paper published in SAGE Journals provides an ethnographic study of how state agencies handle the homes and objects of the deceased. It explores the "material afterlife" created through paperwork and legal processes.

: A paper from the IRIS Repository traces the concept of a "good death" from antiquity to modern palliative care, looking at how society's view of life's end has shifted from divine providence to modern medical philosophy.

: For a sociological perspective, the essay “Bad Deaths” and Spatial Inscriptions of Mourning investigates how violent or premature deaths affect community spaces and memory in high-conflict areas like Rio de Janeiro's favelas.