end of life

What Are the Most Common Regrets People Have? (And Why They Cluster Around the Same Things)

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What Are The Most Common Regrets People Have

The most common regrets people report, whether gathered from hospice bedsides or from large-scale surveys of the general population, tend to cluster around the same few themes. Bronnie Ware documented five of them from her years in palliative care. Daniel Pink’s research across a much wider population confirmed the clustering and added one finding that … Read more

What Sitting With the Dying Teaches You About Living

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Lessons I Learned From Sitting With The Dying

The first thing I learned, and the one that took me the longest to actually absorb, was that dying people are not extraordinary. They are ordinary people who have run out of the ordinary reasons to pretend that the ordinary things are not what matters. Twenty years of sitting with people at the end of … Read more