It was pretty hard for me to come up with something not related to the death. After an hour of brainstorming we came up with something, but here is a list of things we did not use:

[Delay your work on the project before deadline - you will have to finish it anyway]

[Delay your sinking ship - you will sink anyway]

[Delay your alarm clock - you will have to wake up anyway]

Maybe it will kick some ideas for someone.