Imagining himself on his deathbed and thinking of how his whole life outside of the cruise was wasted is the sort of device typically reserved for the Simpson women, particularly Lisa".
If I'm feeling caught up in routine annoyances, I start to consider what I will be thinking about on my deathbed and my entire perspective shifts.
"I know that when I'm on my deathbed someday, I won't be thinking about any particular legislation I passed, or policy I promoted; I won't be thinking about the speech I gave, or the Nobel Prize I received.
Sure, I'm not a psychiatrist maybe anxiety disorders are legitimately taking young Hollywood by storm but I have struggled with my own anxiety since at least age 12, worrying over the most mundane tasks, waking up in the middle of the night with legitimate panic attacks, thinking I was on my deathbed.
According to the Seetohs, when Patricia's father was on his deathbed he whispered something that made his family gather closer, thinking that he had some final instructions or blessings to impart.
Such a tradition did exist – Lockhart's invented deathbed scene of Scott sagely dispensing wisdom is unlikely, given the poor man had been trepanned, filled with opium and left thinking he was King Lear.
But she died thinking that I was a failure and that I didn't love her, and, I mean, why put your mother through that on her deathbed?
"He's done deathbed before".
She died at 40 and I'm thinking, 'I'm a fourth of the way done with my life if I go when she went.' I came up with a principle: when you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, 'I really explored myself.' This sense of urgency was instilled when my mom died.
