Through two texts by Hubert Aquin in which the narrator prepares himself for his own suicide and through some novels by Hervé Guibert, who reveals his impending death from AIDS, we will see how heralding one’s own death gives us food for thought as to the acceleration of time that brings the subject to his or her end. How can we see and represent ourselves as being dead? Into which temporality do they who foreshadow their own approaching death enter? These are the questions we shall attempt to answer in this article.