People said they could see fragments of their past when they were at the door of death, as if the film of their life became the curtain welcoming them to the afterlife.
Ron was always skeptical about this.
How did people know? Wouldn't the people who experienced it were already dead? If someone didn't die after looking at those fragments of their past, then that was simply a delusion their mind created to distract themselves from pain, and not the sign of someone who was about to die.
But let's say that saying was true--in the split second when Ron stared at the giant spear hurled at him, he did not see his life flash by. Did that mean he wouldn't die? Or those saying was false in the first place?
He had no idea, as the spear struck him in the chest.
And his body dispersed, like scattering smoke.