Certain Personal Matters - How I Died

The H. G. Wells Library · Jul 28, 2026 · 6m · transcript

In which the narrator reflects with a curious blend of gravity and wry amusement on the experience of confronting his own premature death, considering the shifting tides of sorrow, dignity, and unexpected moments of lightness amidst the shadow. He discovers, on a gentle spring day, that the menacing presence of death has lost its dominion over him, revealing instead the faint and fickle nature of this common adversary.