Grateful and Dead

“The long-term prognosis for all of us isn’t that good.”
One of the things that drove The Chemical Buddha (if you could call it that) was the thought of his immanent death. Knowing he might die at any moment, TCB was determined to get as much enjoyment out of his time here as was humanly possible. Some say he was too obsessed and that it actually contributed to his early demise. One thing we can learn from his behavior though is that if we take a short-term view of things, smaller issues fade away. The Chemical Buddha thought that when we frame our problems in terms of life and death, everything got a lot easier. Here’s an example of his thinking, “I may die tomorrow so I should drink all this beer, smoke all this pot and fuck whoever I can today.” And if he lived to see the next day, he would repeat the process. Until one day, his final breath (although it was more of a gasp) did come.
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?
How could you benefit from boiling things down into simpler terms?