Passing Before Life's Very Eyes

I didn't really understand this comic at first. But after looking over it several times, my interpretation of the comic strip is that an old man dies and sees his life playing like a film right before his eyes. There is an image of him as a boy that explains to the older man what is happening. It is as if the boy and the older man take the journey towards death together.
At the beginning of the comic strip, the old man is on a hospital bed and it looks as if something is coming out of him. As what most people have been told about death, that when someone dies, their soul is seperated from their body. In that first (p.216), without using any words, I feel that that is what Wolfgang wanted us to interpret from the picture, that the old man's soul is seperated from his body. The next few images are of the old man flying by different scenes, some with people in them. I think that from these pictures, it shows his soul taking him on a journey through his life, but the old man sees this happening as if from an outsider's point of view. The old man then sees himself as a child and they come face to face. The child then explains to the old man that their heart just stopped and they they're basically strolling down memory lane before they come to their final stop, their final ending when everything fades away.
There are many different views that people have about what happens to the soul when we die. I feel that Wolfgang's use of visual pathos lets us see how he visualizes the journey towards death. He uses images as if to describe a scene towards death; the image showing is that of our lives passing before our very eyes, as shown in the comic from how the old man flies through different places. I also think that his use of words explains his interpretation of the stage before and at death. For example, the author has the child saying, "So, our brain has us mixed up in cocktail of serotonin and endorphins which creates for us a little 'film' to watch while life is yanked from our body" (p.227) and "Some folks choose 'the light at the end of the tunnel/dead relatives' package. Others ride an albino tiger into the sky with Elvis. We've opted for the 'Good ol' life before our very eyes memory lane special" (p.229).