What do people mostly regret on their deathbed?
I’ve been thinking about what I would regret. Today I invite you to take a look at the most common regrets below and reflect on how they impact you.
What do people regret most?
A nurse who spent many years in palliative care working with patients for the last few weeks of their lives recorded the most common five regrets people had. Here they are:
- I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
- I wish I didn’t work so hard.
- I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
- I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
- I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Don’t you agree that when people near the end, the fog lifts and they see with clarity what’s important?
No life goes to waste. We can learn from each other and from the wisdom of our fellow humans who left this world before us.
