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Against the Bucket List
Will Self on why he is not a fan of the bucket list.
Will Self reflects on the spread of the craze for so-called 'bucket lists'.
He argues that 'far from introducing the ecstatic into our necessarily ephemeral existence, the bucket list reimposes the clock-watching go-round most of us have endured for most of our lives'.
'What gives life to life is death - nothing else,' he writes, 'while to live that life to the full is to realize this fully'.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Editor: Bridget Harney
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Sun 3 Sep 2023
08:48
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