The Top Life Regret of Dying Hospital Patients

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

Would you live your life over and over again exactly as it happened? Is your centre of gravity within you, with your self-image sturdy and tenacious, or is it outside of you and woefully subject to the inconstancies of fate and the intimations of others? And when you reach the end of this life, will you feel you have lived a life worth living?

You know that feeling at the end of the day, when the anxiety of that-which-I-must-do falls away… That moment when you think, Oh God, what have I done with this day? And what am I doing with my life? And how must I change to avoid catastrophic end-of-life regrets?

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At the end of my life, I know I won’t be wishing I’d held more back, been less effu

Remember how I said that working too hard was one of the biggest regrets people had on their deathbed? Definitely true. But what was the number-one regret? “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” Career was a solid number two, right behind education and ahead of relationships. We spend so much

What is it that most lights you up, that you would be most happy to have given your vital energies to, before you die? As Cat Stevens asks, “What will you leave us this time?”