The former BBC Breakfast presenter, 64, has been living with prostate cancer since 2018. It has spread to his bones, but late last year the father of three said he has a "fair old time to live".
Bill is urging people to get their affairs in order to leave less burden on families. He said: "You are talking to someone who has an incurable disease, so sooner or later it is going to come and get me.
Later rather than sooner hopefully."I have thought a great deal about death since I was diagnosed with cancer because he is there - you know, the fella with the hood over his head and the scythe.
He is waiting and that is fine."I have developed quite a healthy relationship with death. I feel very calm about it because I have given it a lot of.