This study discusses perceptions of one’s own death in Fernand Ouellette’s Les heures, in which, in breathless poetry, he describes his father’s dying moments. Confronted with his approaching death, his father mourns, and his family comes to consider the finiteness of their own life. Ouellette’s writing helps him find meaning where it no longer seems to exist, as communication between father and family is gradually overtaken by silence. The dying man’s body now defines the space in which he continues on his course. This voyage within makes it possible to accept death and try to reach the Light.