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Welcome to The Bucket. We're aware that the topic of mortality can be a sensitive one at a time like this. But we also feel our mission is more relevant than ever. We hope our articles continue to provide perspective as well as entertainment.   

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My Doctor Told Me I Only Have 25 Years to Live

David Abend, co-founder of The Bucket

Since joining the Bucket team as Managing Editor, I’ve been working side-by-side with Bucket Co-Founder, David Abend, to develop content, write articles and, in general, herd the cats. But today, we sat down on opposite sides of the table to conduct David’s first-ever Bucket Interview. We figured it was a great way for you to understand what The Bucket is all about. And see why I jumped at the chance to join the team last March.

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Jumping Ship

Getting out of a dead marriage

When John White’s wife told him their marriage was over, he wasn’t sure how he would make it through.

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Mom and me at 63

I’ve been thinking about my mom more than usual lately. She died in January 1991 at the age of 63, from breast cancer, and, as impossible as it seems, I’m now the same age. In some ways, it feels like yesterday that I was 33, trying to manage the intense, hot grief. But in other ways, it feels like forever ago — years mired in the minutiae of the day-to-day, building a life that resembled adulthood. I was certainly not in a position to lose my mother. Is any girl or woman, ever?

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A Language, an Island, and an Experiment in Ungraceful Aging

Sometimes a trip isn’t enough: it takes total immersion to get the juices flowing again

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An Unplanned Life

My Guillain-Barre Syndrome journey

Partially sedated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), I stared vacantly out the frost covered window, unfocused on anything in particular. My crying baby lay on a pillow beside me on my bed. I was breathing through a machine, but still aware of everything going on in my room. My husband popped a bottle of formula in Casey’s mouth, and tears welled up in my eyes.

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