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A brilliant modern-day example of Everyman can be found in the 2007 film featuring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman "The Bucket List". Similar to the plot of Everyman, the film features two men, Carter Chambers and Edward Cole, who share a hospital room as they are both dying of terminal lung cancer. While the film turns into a bit of a buddy adventure flick while the two dying men adventure across the globe trying to complete their respective "bucket lists", in the end, after Carter has passed, Edward realizes that the true meaning of that trip wasn't about the actual list items, but about the time spent with his friend, and the lessons that he was taught along the way.
The bucket list items can be compared to the different "earthly things" that Everyman sought to accompany him to the afterlife. All were fleeting except for Good Deeds, and that is what he was able to take with him in the end ("All earthly things are but vanity, Beauty, Strength, and Discretion do man forsake, Foolish friends and kinsmen, that fair spake; All flee save Good Deeds, and that am I." (Anonymous 28)). The different activities that Carter and Edward pursued, be it skydiving, or driving sports cars, were all simple, material things that ultimately did not matter when they came to their mortal ends. In death, what mattered was their love and friendship; that is what they would be able to bring with them to the afterlife, and that is what would bring them peace in death their moment of passing.
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