Que mourir, c’est apprendre à vivre ? « De l’exercitation d’une mort imminente »

In the essay on the “De l'exercitation” of Book Two, Chapter Six of the Essais, Montaigne relates that he approached death after a horse accident. While correlating with contemporary research on the near death experience, which is in full swing, this paper with Montaigne by his near death “exercitation”, develops the idea that one “pass” one that ”To philosophize, is to learn to die” to a “To die, is to learn to live”.