I want you to imagine the following situation
Page 143. I want you to imagine the following situation. You were lying on a bed in a hospital and you were dying. You were at your present age. You’re not in physical pain, but you are aware of the fact that in a few hours your life will end.
— from The Landing (Death) · 21 letters on life and its challenges by Charles handy
In the book
Now picture a different cockpit. Imagine yourself lying in a hospital bed at your present age, not in physical pain, but knowing that in a few hours the flight is over. Notice what rushes forward as urgent and what quietly falls off the manifest as the baggage it always was. […] Write your own landing first. Compose the eulogy you would want, draft the obituary you would be proud of, and then fly backward from it. Sit, at least once, in the imagined hospital bed and let it sort the urgent from the trivial. Make the list, too, of everything you have already endured that has made you wiser — it is its own kind of inventory of a life. — The Landing (Death)