The interest of conducting this research with people suffering from terminal cancer lies in the fact that this type of diseases radically transforms people's experience. The meaning that is bred around these intimate experiences can be described by the anthropology of health, in order to contribute to research on the body and diseases as part of sociohistorical processes. The questions guiding this work are: How does terminal cancer affect people? What are the bodily transformations generated to face this new reality? In order to interpret the ethnographic findings, the concept of auratic expression from critical theory, Bakhtin’s concepts of polyphony and the concept of fictional lines from North American feminism were used. The methodology employed was a performative ethnography that focuses on the description of the body and perception, also considering narrative production as an extended metaphor in order to question the materialization of experience in rituals, drawings, or performances.