This work investigates the two works, Juan Rulfo’s “Diles que no me maten” and Carlos Fuentes’s “Chac Mool”, through the term of death. Reger Bartra understands that the indifference to death was invented by Mexican intellectuals. It means that the indifference to death is the result of the intellectuals' project to create a national hero at the time of nation-state formation. Then it is necessary to observe that the Mexican writers how they contributed to that project. So, this work tries to observe how death works in the Mexican narrative, especially in the works of Juan Rulfo and Carlos Fuentes. This work observes that both works are related to Mexican cultural identity. “Diles que no me maten”, through death as a metaphor for Mexican history would be a desperate message that longs for no more death. “Chac Mool” would be the expression that Mexican identity comes from pre-Hispanic history and the present and the past are complementary to Mexican history.