Dave Freeman Dies

Dave Freeman, co-author of the book 100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can’t Miss, died on August 17, 2008. 

Unexpectedly, he did not die from one of his many travel adventures.  Instead, he succumbed to a simple home accident — he fell and died after hitting his head.

According to Greg Quill, Dave Freeman, 47: Popular author, The Star.com (Toronto), Aug. 27, 2008:

Freeman, an advertising executive who travelled alone to cram more adventures into his eclectic schedule, only visited half the places recommended in the best-selling 1999 book, whose title and marketing strategy powered a tidal wave of lists and literature designed to prod readers’ sense of their own mortality and the constraints of time.

His book is said to the inspiration for the Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman movie The Bucket List.