Yea, the whole bucket list crap pisses me off too. You dont need an excuse to do the things that would make you happy.
If you're about to die, might as well do a shitton of excessively dangerous nonsense that will likely get you killed.
You're dead anyway, WHY NOT IN STYLE?
That is probably my only real exception; which I also propose to suicidal people.
"Live life like it's your last day on earth." is not my cup of tea as a sentiment. If I were to follow that, I'd be so sluggish and unmotivated to get out of bed or where I currently am, I would be legally marked as dead. I suppose if you're taking advantage of a guaranteed last few days on Earth, might as well be a total dick about it and have some fun. Which I suppose can explain some people on the elderly front. They can get away with asshole behavior because they stopped caring since they know they're past their prime and so forth; they're just taking advantage of their final moments. Plus, seeing how the younger generations are pretty much throwing their lives out the door anyhow much of the time (as far as the media also shows), I would understand the elders' vendetta against the youthful, and being 15-under speed limit drivers and so forth, and being a pain in the ass in grocery stores. This is a pastime for them in their final days. Who wouldn't take advantage of such a perk?
On the suicide front:
To off oneself to to end your life because something made you sad is just crap, and is stupid, and you're running away from your problems. However, if you decide to face your problems head-on, since you have nothing left to lose, well then, now we're going somewhere. If you're too scared to do that; I would only have to ask why you have no fear to end your life however? So you have less fear killing yourself, instead of making your suicide useful or fun? I mean, if you lost the value of your own life already, then you should be able to face any problem from thereon with gusto. At least, anytime I get hit with suicidal depression, I do something silly/crazy/stupid, and if I survive, I'm that much more awesome and immediately knocked out of it (depression, not life). If anything, I look forward to suicidal tendencies. Gives me more balls than usual to do something all-out nuts.
Much apologies if that offends anyone, but I am not a fan of suicidal types unless they do something useful or fun with it; even screwing others out of further torment of the victim before they kill or spare them for more future torture, and at least have post-mortem plans to haunt them for the rest of their lives or something. But suicide as an escape infuriates me, and is by my books, the most cowardly act ever outside of using the law (not law enforcement/police, but the legal part instead, like economy-based laws) to your advantage to bully someone.
Speaking of bullying, that's something that came up during an argument about bullying, and suicidal kids. I have been subject to bullying all my life. Even still as an adult. If you're driven to suicide, then that's one of the best times to face a bully. Once you stop caring or valuing your life, you have personal right to go effin' nuts all over them, and scare them straight. Why? because normally with those tendencies, you'd be running away from the problem and killing yourself. Why not face your problems and die anyway? The difference would be the amount of balls you leave the Earth with. And provided you survive, you've just made yourself that much more awesome.