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Bucket List Reflection on the Movie: The Bucket List

The Bucket List is a lighthearted comedy about a serious and heart-wrenching human experience: death. Two terminally ill cancer patients, played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman decide that they have had enough of lying around being sick and waiting to die and that it is more important that they find a way to live life to the fullest, for however much more time they have to live. The two characters, Carter Chambers, and Edward Cole, are unlikely friends. One is a billionaire with a trail of failed marriages and the other a blue-collar man who was happily married for many years. After being placed in the same hospital room they discover that what they have in common is the little time that they have left on earth and their desire...

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The two new friends head off to fulfill their Bucket List. Although the movie is often funny, it highlights the feelings and emotions that each of us is likely to experience when contemplating and ultimately facing our mortality. They easily step on each other's toes and feelings, neither one knowing exactly how much longer they have to live and feeling anxious that their time is running out. Death Anxiety is a concept felt by all of us, at any age. It is a sense that is hard to exactly pinpoint, but it is an uneasy feeling related to the sense that we are mortal and that our end could come at any time. As we age, this anxiety can grow worse if we have the sense that we have left things undone or if we have many regrets. Researchers have found that those…

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