If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Recorded Mr Scruff said elsewhere, not written here
I’m like a teenager in that I always leave a trail of stuff behind me, whether it’s empty teacups or records not put back in their sleeves – just stuff in piles everywhere that never gets dealt with. So I reckon I’d have a massive tidy-up. I’d do all the DIY stuff that I’ve been promising to do for the last couple of years – I’d put the shelf back up in the bedroom, fill the hole in the wall in the landing, and I might mow the lawn if the weather’s alright… Basically all the stuff that annoys my wife I’d deal with, so I can make sure my legacy wasn’t a load of mess and unfinished jobs. Oh, and I’d take some prawns out of the freezer as well.

Clash, Swan Song, 19 May 2014 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 54 →
Jax Jones DJ and record producer
I’d run it like every day: have something good to eat, make sure my body’s feeling good, and then when it’s time to go I’d head to the spa and just be massaged into death.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 19 November 2019 source ↗
Barbara Hulanicki Fashion designer; founder of Biba
I would need a terrible lot of cash because I’d have to go and give all the tramps that come off the beach and the homeless, leave lots of cash bundles because they sleep in the doorways, it’s terribly sad. Then I’ll rush home and tidy everything up and throw away all my old clothes and old shoes and take them down to the charity shop. It’s going to be very satisfying.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 15 February 2013 source ↗
Mark Rylance Actor, playwright and theatre director
Anywhere but the M25, rushing around in circles going nowhere with no one.
Recorded Catherine Shoard, Don't Look Up press questionnaire, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 source ↗
Ricky Wilson Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs
My house by the sea to the sound of ropes pinging against boat masts and gulls on the roof. Instant coffee, white toast and watching The Wright Stuff in bed. It’s my last day! If I haven’t done it yet I don’t want to cram it all in now.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 10 August 2012 source ↗

More on death & what remains

Also answered this

Shirley Manson, Marcio Kogan, Black Francis, Brody Dalle, Rick Astley, Jean-Benoît Dunckel

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer