I’ve posted on bucket lists at Out of the Ordinary this morning.
My friend has a bucket list. She hasn’t told me anything about it except that it doesn’t include sky diving because it’s too risky.
Cancer patients, she said, are encouraged to make bucket lists as part of their therapy. A bucket list can give someone something to live for — a few dreams to keep them going through treatments that can seem worse than dying. And I’d say that, therapy or not, most people with potentially terminal illnesses think about the things they want to do before they die.
Read the whole piece, if you dare.