ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the terminal phase of the existence of the subject who is irremediably condemned, in other words, dying in a broad sense. There is a common belief that a human being sees his or her entire life unfold in images at the very moment of dying. Unlike the person who is in mourning, the person who is dying has very little time at his disposal to accomplish what amounts to his last task. It is true that the way in which this "short space of time" is lived bears no comparison with what such a period of time would normally represent in life. At the very end there occurs an extraordinary condensation of temporal facts, as if consciousness were progressively affected by the law of timelessness that reigns in the unconscious. Furthermore, it is likely that the work of dying begins well before the last agony.
