My particular cultural tradition has an old saying that every person needs to make sure to receive forgiveness and do only good things the day before their death.

I love that believe of your culture, we have something similar in my culture too. We believe that whatever you do before you die would be used for or against you in judgement, but it can only work excellently well if we all know when it is our turn to depart from earth... Lol

The simple truth is that, we should make the best use of our time here, no need to wait that long before we do things right.

Thanks once more