When his doctor tells him he only has one month to live, a recent grad and his best friend are determined to check everything off of his bucket list.

There’s a potential? gem of a story here, but I think it needs some polishing.

It can ‘t be a? very long or challenging bucket list if he thinks he can check off all the items in a mere month.? How many of them are merely trivial pursuits?? What if he must prioritize, focus all his remaining time and energy on the most meaningful, most important item on his list?? ?Which is…?

And, of course, he doesn’t have a full month.? Because whatever is going to kill him has got to debilitate him before then.? It? isn’t incredible that his fatal disease is one that allows him to live robustly enough to keep checking off items until to the 23 hour and 59th minute of the last day of the month.

More realistic would be a diagnosis and prognosis akin to the one given to? Professor? Randy Pausch of “Final Lecture” fame? who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given one year to live. (He lived for 321 days after his last lecture.)

Which brings me to my greatest concern:? truth is stranger and more compelling than any fiction.? Every day, real people are given “death sentences”? like the one in this premise (only a more realistic time span).? ?What is there in this premise that can match, let alone trump the drama of? the life -in-the-face-of-imminent-death struggle of?real people like Randy Pausch?

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