The paper presents the idea of death and dying which has an extremely important role in different societies and cultures, which can particularly be seen through the position of this idea in almost every religion. There is a change that occurs in a contemporary society in transition. Death is no more considered a natural event. This supersedes a positive idea of death and dying as a constituent part of life. All this happens under the influence of various processes, such as marginalization, inequality, inability to live decently, lack of medical treatment and/or low-quality treatment on the one, and glorification of wealth, youth and strength on the other hand. The rich are beautiful, healthy, strong and famous, while the poor are ugly, ill, anonymous and collectively condemned to misthanasia. The progress in medicine promises to the rich a longer and better life, and a nice death. At the same time, it limits the possibility of a good and timely treatment to the poor. This leads to an early, unnecessary, unjust, undignified and ugly death, or to passive-active misthanasia. This causes the death of solidarity and morality of the society, the death of medicine, and of the health in a society in transition.