What is the most perceptive description of what it's like

"slowly, and then all at once."

"Hello darkness my old friend"

"My Mother is a fish"

Death is finished, it is no more!

My wrist hurts just looking at that blanket.

PEACE! peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,—. He hath awakened from the dream of life

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?

>>8498078
The one in Brief History of Seven Killings (though it's a violent death)

The end of Stoner, by John Williams. MAde me cry a lil.

>>8498078
Again sight clears. I am slick with blood. I discover I no longer feel pain. Animals gather around me, enemies of old, to watch me die. I give them what I hope will appear a sheepish smile. My heart booms terror. Will the last of my life slide out if I let out breath? They watch with mindless, indifferent eyes, as calm and midnight black as the chasm below me.
Is it joy I feel?
They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.
"Poor Grendel's had an accident," I whisper. "So may you all."

>>8498366
Op here, made this thread right after finishing stoner.

He Death of Ivan Illych, I suppose

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>>8498078
Port succumbing to Typhoid Fever in The Sheltering Sky

>>8498078
how can any of us honestly judge how perceptive a description of dying is? is anyone here physically dead (i know a lot of you are "dead inside," but that isn't the same)?

poast passages pllox

Stoner