My Simple (but impossible to achieve on purpose) Bucket List

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When I die I want to have:

Finished the final draft of a poem and not started a new one
Not be in the middle of making a picture
Just finished the book I was reading without starting a new one

So it can be like 'the end'. Everything complete.

Of course, I want to die of old age & there's no way to dictate any of this stuff. It's just a strong desire I have for how my final days will go.

I used to volunteer in a second hand book shop and we'd get books in from old people who'd died & it made me sad to see the bookmarks with pages/chapters left to go.

As a musician, I quite fancy leaving an Unfinished Symphony when I go- they're all the rage. Of course, I should probably write a finished symphony first for that to mean anything... that's on my bucket list.

In the novel "Among Others" by Jo Walton the teenage protagonist is a voracious reader. At a low point, she briefly considers suicide before hearing a voice in her head that just says "Not finished." Later, she decides the voice meant the new book she's in the middle of reading. I can relate to her priorities. I can picture myself on my deathbed, grimly hanging on for months until the final book in a series comes out.

Around the time "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was cancelled, a charcter in "Narbonic," one of my favourite webcomics, died. (Temporarily. Because comics.) His last thought as he drifts towards the Afterlife is "Now I'll never find out how Buffy ends. Wait. Maybe I will."

After numerous social rejection, academic failure, getting made redundant, dumped, and etcetera, my worthless corpse no longer has the gumption to set goals

Destroyed the inside out