Before starting I need to clarify the question. Do I assume a year’s grace as for Deborah? Am I retired or in employment? Am I comfortably enough off?

If I have a year’s grace and am already retired, all I think I can do is live life with slightly more intensity than before. My ordinary social life does not include concern about the fact that I am going to die. So I can’t tell anyone else except my closest: This to avoid the creation of a barrier of deception which would in any case be insecure. Also I should begin to put in place important practical arrangements for the dying stage. When that comes, that’s the time to tell.

I don’t have a bucket or other list. In fact, we all should recognise that we have an unspecified period of life grace followed by an unspecified period of dying. Is this not really the same formula as the one that Deborah was responding to: It’s just that in her case the time periods were less uncertain and probably shorter. Whatever the circumstances then, the big question for me is whether I will feel content to die: Will I feel that I have lived a sufficient life, or spent my time in the wings waiting for a cue to come on? I’m not going to be able to change the facts of that to any significant extent in my period of grace. More likely I would spend some time reviewing and reinterpreting my story to produce the desired answer.

I would spend as much time as is practical visiting old friends and haunts. I would want to climb a mountain or two, selected in terms of character and my history rather than size. I wonder if I would get satisfaction from some craft activity. Too late to learn a lot, but worth a try. I would expect to seek and find other simple sensual pleasures, quiet rather than hedonistic. And that’s it, I think. Is that all there is?