101 thing to do before you die

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100 Things To Do Before You Die' author dies

Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things To Do Before You Die, a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died after hitting his head in a fall at his home. He was 47.

Freeman died Aug. 17 after the fall at his Venice home, his father, Roy Freeman, told the Los Angeles Times on Monday.

An advertising agency executive, Freeman co-wrote the 1999 book subtitled "Travel Events You Just Can't Miss" with Neil Teplica. It was based on the website whatsgoingon.com, which the pair ran together from 1996 to 2001.

"This life is a short journey," the book says. "How can you make sure you fill it with the most fun and that you visit all the coolest places on earth before you pack those bags for the very last time?"

Freeman's relatives said he visited about half the places on his list before he died, and either he or Teplica had been to nearly all of them.

"He didn't have enough days, but he lived them like he should have," Teplica said.

The book's recommendations ranged from the obvious - attending the Academy Awards and running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain - to the more obscure - taking a voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and "land diving" on the Island of Vanuatu, which Freeman once called "the original bungee jumping."

It included goofy graphics with each entry, indicating that some activities were "down and dirty," and others "grandma friendly."

The success of 100 Things inspired dozens of like-minded books, with titles such as 100 Things Project Managers Should Do Before They Die and 100 Things Cowboys Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die.

Freeman graduated from the University of Southern California in 1983, briefly working for an ad agency in Newport Beach before moving to New York to work for Grey Advertising.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Freeman watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center from his apartment just blocks away. He moved back to Southern California to be closer to his family

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Only 47 actually the same age as me in memorial post you list here. Yes photos are permitted

[mr_bastos]

first my list of thing wanted to do and have done

Have a threesome.

Have another threesome hehe.

Make love in a park.

Make love in the Sea.

Swim in the sea naked.

Skinny dip at midnight.

Photograph models in an abandoned building.

Complete a coast-to-coast trip across America.

Complete a coast-to-coast trip across Australia.

Backpack through Asia.

Buy my own house and then spend time making it into exactly what I want.

Invent a word that makes it into the dictionary (Kuripotism).

Be a member of the audience in a TV show.

Get to know my neighbours (but not to well).

Plant a tree.

Learn not to say yes when I really mean no.

Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Visit parliament house Canberra.

Be the boss.

Drive a convertible with the top down.

Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.

Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.

Sleep outdoors watching the stars.

Raise the best kid in the world.

Give to a charity (anonymously).

Let someone peel and feed me prawns

Create my own web site.

Grow a garden.

Be someone's mentor.

Attend at least one major sporting event.







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[mr_bastos]

now my list of thinngs to do 


Break a world record

Get a job will $1,000,000+ salary and all the perks.

Fly first class.

Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.

Create my own cult web site.

Make love on a train.

Make love on a plane.

Make the front page of a national newspaper.

Bury a time capsule.

Go on holidays with no luggage.

Go up in a hot air balloon.

Sky Dive.

Stay in the best suite in a five star hotel.

Play a part in your favourite TV show.

Sit on a jury.

Spend New Year's in an exotic location.

Write the story of your life lets face it no one else is likely too.

Find a job you love.

Retire.

Spend Christmas day helping out.

Ride a Horse through the surf.

Surf and snowboard in one day, Australia is the best place for this.

 Throw a huge party and have every one of my friends attend.

Swim with a dolphin.

Skydive.

Have my portrait painted.

Learn to speak a foreign language and make use of it.

Watch the launch of the space shuttle.

Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.

Be an extra in a film.
 
Own a room with a sea view.

Learn how to take a compliment.

Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.

Shower in a waterfall.

Ask for a raise.

Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.

Experience weightlessness.

Write my will.

Learn how to complain effectively and do it.

Go wild in Rio during Carnival.


Drive the Autobahn in a Porsche.

Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.

Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.

Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.

Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Let someone feed me peeled grapes

Go deep sea fishing and eat the catch.

Meet ten 10s in one vacation 












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