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A Point of View: Against the Bucket List

01/09/2023

Against the Bucket List

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Will Self on the 'pernicious practice' of bucket lists.

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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