When we look back on that recording we so invariably recall so little of what it was really like. When we look at the past from the present moment we see in it the causes that have brought about the current day effects. We perceive it from the present and therefore change its very nature. This is of second nature to us all. Time, then, is but a moment of conciousness.
Time is a focus.
Time is a means by which we organize and crystallize, the present. It is a means by which we are able to plan the future and measure the past. Time is a focus. Often that focus, then, is time. The moment of death, interestingly enough, is not as sharply in focus, and so it should be.