The paper deals with three novels that present life narrative in the face of death. The main character in the three novels is a man in his seventies facing different forms of death, while his own approaching death is looming, leading to a kind of reassessment of his whole life. The three novels studied are: Philip Roth's The Dying Animal (2002), Andre Brink's Before I Forget (2005), and Adel Esmat's The Commandments (2018) (in Arabic). It is an intense dramatically loaded moment in life that has been artistically used for its power to provide a distinct point of view on the life narrative of the protagonist. It is a moment of revaluation that possibly changes much of one's revered and established values. Although one would not classify these narratives as a distinctive and independent sub genre within life writings, yet they do share distinctive traits that makes studying them as a corpus of works productive.