By Bronnie Ware (who worked for years nursing the dying)
Top 5 Regrets People Make on their Deathbed
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Top 5 Regrets People Make on their Deathbed
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#2And sunscreen... don't forget the sunscreen.
Flippancy aside, there's nothing that makes these 'end of life' desires any more meaningful than 'prime of life' impulses.
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#3Interesting read, which also says I'm doing most things wrong.
Original (kind of disingenuous to just copy / paste the whole thing with a link at the end): http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html
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#4Why is the framing of looking back on your life from your deathbed seen as more valid than any other point in your life? Are there good arguments for its validity?
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#5Interesting read, which also says I'm doing most things wrong. Original (kind of disingenuous to just copy / paste the whole thing with a link at the end): http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html
Came here to say the same thing - pure content thievery.
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#6Why is the framing of looking back on your life from your deathbed seen as more valid than any other point in your life? Are there good arguments for its validity?
I would imagine because when you're on your deathbed, it's too late to change anything. It brings a little clarity and highlights what is really important vs the stuff that seemed important at the time but turned out to a waste of time.
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#7And sunscreen... don't forget the sunscreen. Flippancy aside, there's nothing that makes these 'end of life' desires any more meaningful than 'prime of life' impulses.
Agreed. If anything, you won't have to worry about those death-bed regrets for long.
Also, this type of thing always seems skewed to people who worked a lot. What do the under-achievers regret?
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#8I watched someone close to me die over several months. Her only regret seemed to be that she was dying.
I don't believe this list of top 5 regrets is based on research at all. I suspect that it is mostly only in TV, movies, or novels where a person on their deathbed contemplates things they would have done differently. Usually the impending death overwhelms all other thoughts.
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#9Why is the framing of looking back on your life from your deathbed seen as more valid than any other point in your life? Are there good arguments for its validity?
Good arguments? I dunno.
However, I think an argument is that experience and knowledge about your own life is at a maximum (absent degenerative diseases, etc) just as it ends, and therefore taking advice from the person you are on your deathbed is taking advice from someone who knows more than you about everything, and has precisely the same goals for you as you do.
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#10I was expecting something like "I wish I had worked harder" as opposed to what I found in the article - "I wish I didn’t work so hard". In a way, that’s actually relieving. Perhaps, I am too alive to think that way.