American Beauty My favorite scene ending

I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn t a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my Or my grandmother s hands, and the way her skin seemed like And the first time I saw my cousin Tony s brand new And And Carolyn.