These are the five most common deathbed regrets

Metro ^ | Feb 25, 2015 | Yvette Caster

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Ever wondered what you’ll look back on and regret?

Author, blogger, musician and nurse Bronnie Ware counselled the dying in their final days.

She wrote The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying and more recently published a second book, Your Year For Change: 52 Reflections For Regret-Free Living.

The Australian spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives.

Here’s what she discovered were the most common deathbed regrets.

1. Wishing you had the courage to live life true to yourself, not the life others expected

This was the most common regret.

2. Wishing you hadn’t worked so hard

3. Wishing you had the courage to express your feelings

4. Wishing you stayed in touch with friends

5. Wishing you’d let yourself be happier

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Old article, but interesting as I approach 70.

None of these 5 match my regrets. But if I could go back and fix my regrets but it would change where I am now, I would not do it. I am blessed and lucky where I am.

[EEGator]

Inner peace is undervalued in our society.

[Bonemaker]

Shut up...I’m 83 and not the oldest on this forum!!🫥

[packagingguy]

If you like what you do #2 is less of an issue. I really don’t want to stop, maybe change where I am but not the job.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I regret not keeping up piano. My tried her hardest to get me to keep it going, but I didn’t enjoy it and quit. Mom always said it was a great joy in later life and she was right. She was a wonderful pianist.

We’ve lost our way not making our own music and singing together as friends.

[Jonty30]

When did Moses sign up?

[HerrBlucher]

Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again too few to mention.

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I had a great job with lots of satisfaction. I gave it up to pursue love, wow was that the best decision I ever made. My love gifted me a daughter when I was 58. I am truly blessed.

[Ikeon]

they’re lying, They didnt even mention the #1 regret of divorced men. “I wished Id never married that B*tch”.

[Jonty30]

My only regret in working the hours I did was that I wasn’t working with my given talents.

[ClearCase_guy]

Mag

— Carl Sandburg

I wish to God I never saw you, Mag.
I wish you never quit your job and came along with me.
I wish we never bought a license and a white dress
For you to get married in the day we ran off to a minister
And told him we would love each other and take care of each other
Always and always long as the sun and the rain lasts anywhere.
Yes, I’m wishing now you lived somewhere away from here
And I was a bum on the bumpers a thousand miles away dead broke.
I wish the kids had never come
And rent and coal and clothes to pay for
And a grocery man calling for cash,
Every day cash for beans and prunes.
I wish to God I never saw you, Mag.
I wish to God the kids had never come.

[Bob434]

My biggest regret was rubbing ketchup in my eyes

But that’s Heinz sight

[Ken H]

Not investing in Amgen back in 1984.

[Jim Noble]

“I wish I had spent more time at work” - never.

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LOL, too true.

[wgmalabama]

My only regrets are not putting bodies deeper in the ground. Our country will suffer because of my regrets.

[Rembrandt]

Post of the year!!!

[deport]

I’ll be 84 if I’m still breathing air come 12/10.

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My only regrets are not putting bodies deeper in the ground. Our country will suffer because of my regrets.

Fixed for you, too many deserving and not enough time to do it.

[montanajoe]

My daughter was born when I was 58 also, she’s the best thing that ever happened to me...she is a senior in HS now enjoy every moment with her as they grow up so fast...