If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Recorded Torbjørn Brundtland said elsewhere, not written here
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.

Clash, Last Day On Earth, 6 November 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 54 →
Rufus Wainwright Singer, songwriter and composer
I would probably want to cook a decent turkey. Whether it was my mother or my sister, growing up in a matriarchal family in America, they always cooked the best turkeys and kinda ruled my life that way, so I would like one crack at it. I’d put a turkey in the oven, and that would give me a good five hours to do some other stuff.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 18 July 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 ↗
Cate Blanchett Actor and producer
I guess dancing up a storm in the living room with my husband and children, and the farmer from across the way. Man, that farmer can dance.
Recorded Catherine Shoard, Don't Look Up press questionnaire, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 source ↗
Damon Gough Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; records as Badly Drawn Boy
I’d make the best double album ever. People hate double albums and always say, ‘this should have just been one’, like ‘Sandinista!’ by The Clash. I’d like to try and achieve a double album that everyone says, ‘actually, I could do with it being three’. I’d have to get up early.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 22 October 2010 source ↗

More on death & what remains

Also answered this

James Blunt, Brett Anderson, Shaggy, Lionel Richie, Paul Smith, Donovan

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer