Anthony Bourdain's eerie prediction before his death

Anthony Bourdain predicted he would “die in the saddle” in a recent interview.

“I’ll go back, see my daughter, unpack, repack, mimic a normal life, which is extraordinarily pleasurable to me,” Bourdain, 61, told PEOPLE this past May.

“I really love doing laundry. When I go home, putting my laundry in the machine and then hearing the dryer going around, that’s very comforting to me,” he added.

Bourdain said he was nowhere near ready to retire.

“I gave up on that. I’ve tried. I just think I’m just too nervous, neurotic, driven,” he told the publication. “I would have had a different answer a few years ago. I might have deluded myself into thinking that I’d be happy in a hammock or gardening. But no, I’m quite sure I can’t. I’m going to pretty much die in the saddle.”