[Training in thanatology ; a map of the world.]

To contribute to the training of workers in health and social fields concerning dying raises the whole question of their relationship to the world. And the very fact that, here in Quebec, we "give ourselves the luxury" of offering a training program on dying may be significant of new practices concerning dying. The possible social uses and the stakes of such training are briefly explored here : specialization of knowledge allowing for the emergence of a new "thanatocracy of death" ; the liberating of speech into behavioural models, etc. In reply to these stakes, a paradigm : it is the living who die, who, by their communication, may give rise to the development of a method of investigation of dying : in our relations with those who die, in our relation with the institution and more globally, in the types of death which our society generates.