BRITISH rock legend Ginger Wildheart has further explained his approach to a terminal cancer diagnosis, saying “I’m gonna party like a motherf***er for the rest of my days”.
Wildheart, 61, has been diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma and has been given two or three years to live.
“My brain is in a fantastic place at the moment,” Wildheart told the Mike James Rock Show at Download over the weekend.
“I’m living every second in the moment. When you live in the moment, you can’t be worried about the future. You can’t be worried about the past. It’s the only place to be.
“I learned how to do that three years before I got the diagnosis. But to practice that in real time after I found out that is great: good time to find out that I’m going to die of cancer.
“We’re all gonna fuckin’ die. What’s the big fuckin’ deal? It’s about how much you live, surely!
“And I’m living. Life is working so well. I’m on this fuckin’ festival, people want to write to me and tell me how great I am and how much I’ve meant to them. I want every one of my friends to have this much joy in their life.”
He said humans were ‘life pigs’ who wanted more ‘even if we’re in the sewer’.
“Fuck that! There’s more than the physical world. It goes on. We go on. Things go on. So make this one matter.
“People won’t remember you when you’ve gone. All they remember is how you made them feel.
“…what your job that you did here, being a human, how that affected them. That’s all that they’re going to remember.
“What I’m gonna do is I’m gonna do exactly the same as I’ve always done. I’m just gonna ramp it up a few notches because I’m not worried about getting sick and ill in my old age.
“I wonder how much damage I can do to myself in two to three years.Well, I’m gonna find out.
“I’m gonna party like a motherfucker for the rest of my days. Every single day. And so far I haven’t had a bad fucking day.
“I want to drag my burning corpse to the gates of fucking hell and say ‘that was fucking brilliant’.”
Speaking about his pet dog, Wildheart said: “She only thinks of now and she reminds me of that and that’s where we all need to be.
“All you’ve got is now. The past, that’s where depression lives. The future, that’s where anxiety lives.
“Find your tricks and your survival mechanisms for now.
“I’m planning for the immediate future. Right now, I’m planning on getting really, really drunk.”
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