If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Recorded Philip Oakey said elsewhere, not written here
I would like to have read all the novels of Charles Dickens. My dad always said he was the best novelist in the English language, and I think I should work out if he was right or not. He usually was right about those things.

Clash, Last Day On Earth, 26 April 2011 source ↗

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John Grant Singer, musician and songwriter
I would probably talk to each of my close friends and my family members about things I regret and get any miscommunications out of the way.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 30 September 2011 source ↗
Donovan Musician, songwriter and record producer
I’d need instant satellite communication on my website and a camera. The achievement now would be to channel the last songs before I drop the body. If I was healthy and not ill I would like to spend the hours composing on camera online with as many people that wanted to experience the last day of song writing.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 27 May 2011 source ↗
Mike Skinner English rapper
I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 23 November 2012 source ↗
Torbjørn Brundtland Musician; one half of Röyksopp
I can see myself making this grand plan of finding everyone and telling them all how much I love them. However, instead I find myself in bed at 3pm and I’ve slept for half the day. I would probably make grand plans and then just oversleep. So I think it could go two ways. I could try and be generous and get together with the people that I’m close to and tell them all how much they mean to me. But at the same time that’s also really egocentric as I’m about to die and therefore the more I make them love me, the more pain they’ll be in. So I think I’ll skip that just because I’m selfless. So I’d go to my enemies and tell them how much I hate them all. I could be as rude to them as I want as I know that I’m going to have the last word anyway. But my enemy list isn’t that long and I wouldn’t be that cruel, just the odd harsh word and kick in the ass.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 6 November 2009 source ↗

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