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What's Your Bucket Age?
Can counting down, instead of up, change the way you live?
Apr 5, 2025 • David Abend
My Doctor Told Me I Only Have 25 Years to Live
An Interview with The Bucket Founder, David Abend
Jan 23, 2025
Jumping Ship
Getting out of a dead marriage
Apr 6, 2025 • Morgan Baker
Anchor Free Living
How decluttering can reveal lost passions
Apr 7, 2025
Finding Life in Death Cafes
Michelle Chang and the story behind the Death Cafe Roadtrip
Apr 6, 2025
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Expiration Date: Outliving My Heart
Apr 6, 2025 • Dawn Levitt
Harnessing Regret
Apr 4, 2025 • Abigail Thomas
Jumping Ship
Apr 6, 2025 • Morgan Baker
Finale, but not Final
Apr 6, 2025 • Amy Barnes

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Anchor Free Living
How decluttering can reveal lost passions
Apr 7, 2025
Jumping Ship
Getting out of a dead marriage
Apr 6, 2025 • Morgan Baker
Best Three Months
An interview with Gabby Elise Jimenez
Apr 6, 2025 • David Abend
Get, While The Gettin’s Good
Why you shouldn’t wait to take those bucket list trips
Apr 6, 2025

Podcast

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Closing Doors—Dan Ariely
In this episode of The Bucket podcast, David Abend sits down with renowned behavioral economist Dan Ariely to explore the hidden costs of keeping your…
Aug 21, 2024
Go Scrum Yourself—Jeff Sutherland
Can applying Scrum principles to your personal goals lead to fewer deathbed regrets? That's the question I pose to Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum…
Jul 16, 2024 • David Abend
27:25
Four Thousand Mondays—Jodi Wellman
How many Monday’s do you have left? And how are you going to use them? That’s what Jodi Wellman wants to know. Jodi is the Founder of Four Thousand…
Apr 23, 2024 • David Abend
38:39
Laura Berman Fortgang: Yeah, But
Need some help getting out of your own way? (don’t we all?) Then listen to this podcast with Laura Berman Fortgang, one of the founding members of the…
Mar 18, 2024 • David Abend
34:02
Gabrielle Elise Jimenez: Best Three Months
Can acknowledging and planning for your own death lead to fewer death-bed regrets? That’s the question I pose to Gabrielle Elise Jimenez, hospice nurse…
Feb 27, 2024 • David Abend
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Interviews

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How To Live Forever: Carl Reiner
An interview with the late, great comedian, Carl Reiner
Apr 6, 2025 • David Abend
Raging Against the Clock
Scott O'Leary, Founder of OVER50Badasses.com
Apr 6, 2025 • David Abend
A Breath of Fresh Air
Andrea Gavin Becker
Apr 6, 2025 • David Abend
Finale, but not Final
Nancy Volpe Beringer of Project Runway
Apr 6, 2025 • Amy Barnes

The DBR Diaries

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What are the Death-Bed Regret (DBR) Diaries?
And why you should read them
Apr 6, 2025 • David Abend
Call for Submissions
Did you have something in your life that was destined to become a death-bed regret (D.B.R.) that you took steps to prevent?
Apr 6, 2025 • David Abend
To Die As Strangers
Anyone who has been the victim of childhood bullying knows that you live in fear—every day—and you never feel safe.
Apr 6, 2025
Disclosure
My friend Géraldine used to say she would write a book one day.
Apr 6, 2025
The Anthropologist in the Family
How NOT Being Like My Parents Has Led to a Regret-Free Life
Apr 6, 2025

Columns

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Abby's Corner
Wit and wisdom from Abby Thomas
Apr 6, 2025
Giddy Up!
Join Linda McAllister as she chronicles her experience of dating in her 60s.
Apr 5, 2025
Squirrel Stew
Inside the cranky, yet provocative mind of J.P McFarland.
Apr 5, 2025
For the Moment
Rita Lussier is a writer, runner, and optimist who writes and runs to stay optimistic.
Apr 5, 2025

Themes

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Traveling the World, One Year At a Time
The how, why and ways to travel the world on a limited budget
Apr 6, 2025
Rethink the Trip
It is easy to look at travel as a time-based itinerary — a six days, seven nights kind of thing that can disappear in the rear view mirror soon after we…
Apr 4, 2025 • David Abend
What Doesn't Kill You
7 articles that explore the positive in the negative
Apr 4, 2025
Dogs. Life.
For most of us, dogs are a big part of our lives.
Apr 3, 2025

Self Discovery

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Holy Aloha!
A one-way ticket out of my comfort zone
Apr 6, 2025 • Morgan Baker
The Magical Mushroom Trip that Wasn’t
My journey with anorexia
Apr 6, 2025
Mortality as Metaphor
1. Stroke of luck
Apr 6, 2025
An Unplanned Life
My Guillain-Barre Syndrome journey
Apr 6, 2025

Mortality Awareness

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Finding Life in Death Cafes
Michelle Chang and the story behind the Death Cafe Roadtrip
Apr 6, 2025
Don't Forget, You're Going To Die
Hansa Bergwall, creator of the app, WeCroak
Apr 6, 2025 • Joyce Alla
How Denial of Death Can Deny You of Life
Dr. Robert Firestone, co-author of "Beyond Death Anxiety"
Apr 6, 2025
Estate Planning
From transaction to relationship
Apr 6, 2025
The Mortality Paradox
How fear of death affects financial planning
Apr 6, 2025
Now is the New Later
How "death anxiety" cheats us out of life
Apr 6, 2025
Let’s Talk About Death, Baby
Meet some of the leaders of the growing "Death Positivity" movement
Apr 6, 2025
Green Death
Planning a funeral you can live with
Apr 6, 2025

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How To Live Forever: Carl Reiner
An interview with the late, great comedian, Carl Reiner
Apr 6, 2025 • David Abend
Don't Forget, You're Going To Die
Hansa Bergwall, creator of the app, WeCroak
Apr 6, 2025 • Joyce Alla
Raging Against the Clock
Scott O'Leary, Founder of OVER50Badasses.com
Apr 6, 2025 • David Abend
How Denial of Death Can Deny You of Life
Dr. Robert Firestone, co-author of "Beyond Death Anxiety"
Apr 6, 2025
Time Waits for No Stuff
I’ve been going through a lot of stuff lately.
Apr 6, 2025
Wife, Mother, Badass.
On a frigid night with the wind whipping all around, I’m standing on an icy sidewalk more than 400 miles from home.
Apr 6, 2025
What are the Death-Bed Regret (DBR) Diaries?
And why you should read them
Apr 6, 2025 • David Abend
Holy Aloha!
A one-way ticket out of my comfort zone
Apr 6, 2025 • Morgan Baker
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