‘Hotel of death’ only accepts check-in for those in their final moments

For him, although there is a great variation in how death is understood in the world, there is still a pattern that can be seen in almost all rituals: “Societies promote a series of rituals in order to separate the spirit of the deceased from the world of the living. (…) There is a ritualistic complex in order to make this dead person go to the world of the dead in peace.

And so it is in Hinduism. The cremation of bodies, according to belief, causes the spirit to detach itself from the matter (body).

Rituals are also a process of purification of society itself. This is said in many anthropological works. In other words, death pollutes. It contaminates society itself. Society falls into disarray, and it becomes disorganized especially in small-scale societies.
Martinho Tota

For him, the “Hotel da Salvação” humanizes death, especially among elderly people. Quoting the German sociologist Norbert Elias, who portrayed dying people in one of his works, he brings the reflection that these people are already disconnected from society even before death: “This whole ritualistic complex is to purify the dead and society. It is to lead the dead to another order in the world of the dead and to reorganize and reestablish the social order, compromised by the death of that loved one”.