Emanuele Severino (1929 -2020) was an Italian philosopher. An original thinker and public intellectual, he is considered one of the most important Italian philosophers of the 20th century.

Federico Divino is a Researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has served as Professor for the Master in Death Studies at the University of Padua, Italy, and is currently completing dual PhDs in Transcultural Studies (University of Bergamo, Italy) and Social Sciences (University of Antwerp, Belgium).