I appreciate the spirtual messaging of this piece and much of it connects with this that I published a couple of hours ago: https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/learning-to-love-by-observing-the-art-of-dying-well-2048b13f71d2

As for the phrase/belief of our lives passing before our eyes in the moments before our death, I have a different interpretation of the genesis of that belief.

"At the end of each lifetime, the soul returns to Heaven changed from the soul that incarnated and sparked this life. My soul came here with the imprint of all 17,042 previous incarnations and it shall return with the addition, for better or worse, of my imprint. Thus I, not just my soul, have an afterlife.

Sometime after return to Heaven, one goes through a self-assessment of their life by viewing it in its entirety and discussing it with their ancestor-souls (I’m sure this is the source of the phrase “my life passed before my eyes”), and then presents one’s case to God as to what level one has earned, they caucus, and then God decides. God can be reasoned with — God is open to changing their mind. We talk to each other the way I would expect to talk to a parent who knows much but values their child’s observations, intuition and intellect." That's from one of my earliest Medium essays, https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/eternal-soul-properly-defined-fe7a93e534f8.

What I have since come to understand is that the purpose of life review has nothing to do with our actions as our souls are not responsible for our free will but rather only concerns what our souls learned from observing our free will.