I had a hunch that I had heard of it somewhere - “The Deathbed Experiment”. Confused between Covey’s “Begin with the End in Mind” and Robin Sharma’s “Who Will Cry When You Die,” I set out searching for the “Deathbed Experiment”. My search led me through things like “Legacy thinking,”“Mortality Reflection,” and the “Eulogy Exercise”. And it went a little deeper, the more abstract ones, like “Memento Mori Practice”, “Terror Management Theory Experiments”, “Thanatotherapy,” and “End-of-Life Journaling Exercise”. No, I wasn’t looking for those. The idea itself was simple: imagining how people would cope with your death. Well, the name didn’t matter to start my own experiment. Here is how I progressed. I’ll skip over friends, as I believe that each one of them would fall into one of the categories that follow. Let me begin with the easiest group - my neighbours. Their response would be straightforward - they would simply find out that I used to live there. Nothing more, nothing less.
Beyond your imagination