title: Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation
author:  Michael B. Sabom 
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  Emile Zola  
  CHAPTER I. MY PASSING  
  CHAPTER II. FUNERAL PREPARATIONS  
  CHAPTER III. THE PROCESSION  
  CHAPTER IV. THE NAIL  
  CHAPTER V. MY RESURRECTION  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Death of Olivier Becaille
  
  
  ### Emile Zola
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. MY PASSING
  
  
  
  
  
  It was on a Saturday, at six in the morning, that I died after a three days'
  illness. My wife was searching a trunk for some linen, and when she rose and
  turned she saw me rigid, with open eyes and silent pulses. She ran to me,
  fancying that I had fainted, touched my hands and bent over me. Then she
  suddenly grew alarmed, burst into tears and stammered:
  
  
  "My God, my God! He is dead!"
  
  
  I heard everything, but the sounds seemed to come from a great distance. My
  left eye still detected a faint glimmer, a whitish light in which all objects
  melted, but my right eye was quite bereft of sight. It was the coma of my
  whole being, as if a thunderbolt ha