It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

The line plays on a familiar cliché—“your life flashes before your eyes” at the moment of death—by insisting the flashback is not a special final phenomenon but the ongoing experience of living. The punchline reframes life as a continuous, often-overlooked accumulation of moments that only seems coherent in retrospect. In typical Pratchett fashion, the joke carries a humane seriousness: it nudges readers to treat ordinary time as meaningful rather than waiting for a dramatic summation. The wit also undercuts sentimental narratives about deathbed clarity, suggesting that whatever “meaning” we find is made in the living, not granted at the end.