Bullet in the Brain
Tobias Wolff’s 1995 short story about what “passes before” a literary critic’s eyes—“a phrase he would have abhorred”—when he is shot in the head at the bank.
Anders the book critic: "'Oh, bravo. Dead meat.' He turned to the woman in front of him. 'Great script, eh? The stern, brass-knuckled poetry of the dangerous classes.'"