
Jeremy Clarkson has revealed the haunting reason he refuses to donate his organs after death — as he laid out a series of bizarre and brutally honest plans for his funeral, burial and will. The Clarkson’s Farm star, 65, opened up about his mortality while venting his fury over Labour’s inheritance tax reforms — but it was his admission about organ donation that stood out. Writing in his latest column for The Times, Jeremy said: “I know I should carry one. It’s the right thing to do.”
He then explained the lingering doubt that has stopped him from signing up, adding: “But I’ve always had a nagging doubt that I might be wrong about God and that if I give my eyes to a motorcyclist and it turns out there is a heaven, I’d be pretty cross with myself.” The comments come after his emergency heart surgery at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital in late 2024, which prompted the presenter to rethink his health and lifestyle. But even when confronting death, Jeremy couldn’t resist poking some fun at the morbid topic.
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He revealed mourners at his funeral will be made to sit through the full 23 minutes of Genesis track Supper’s Ready — a prog rock epic from 1972. And his burial plans are just as unusual.
Jeremy wrote he wants to be buried in Canada’s remote Yukon territory, explaining the choice exists “for no other reason than it’s seriously inconvenient".
His will, meanwhile, reads like something straight out of a joke book. Longtime co-host James May will receive a cow, with Jeremy explaining whatever he leaves him “needs to be something he’d find irritating".
Richard Hammond has been earmarked to inherit “all my trousers". His son Finlo, 29, will receive his gold watch — but only, Jeremy wrote, “if he promised to keep it up his bottom for five years".
Various acquaintances won’t escape mention either, with Jeremy revealing they will be left 20p to ensure they do not think he “forgot about them".
He has also ruled out cremation, adding another firm instruction to his post-death plans.
Jeremy also addressed what should happen if he becomes incapacitated, writing: “All I can say is that I ‘would wish not to be in a vegetative state’ and that I would ‘prefer it if no heroic efforts’ were made to bring me round after a prolonged deprivation of oxygen,” he penned.
In another swipe at Labour, he even suggested adding a clause demanding his life support remain active until the party leaves Downing Street.
The remarks come as Jeremy continues to rage against changes to Agricultural Property Relief, which take effect from April 5.
Under the new rules, farms valued above £1million will be subject to a 20 per cent inheritance tax when passed on — a move that directly impacts farmers like Jeremy, who runs the 1,000-acre Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire.
He has made no secret of his frustration with the policy, writing that he intends to “hang on until the Labourites have gone” in the hope it may be reversed.