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Nurse reveals the top 5 regrets people make on their deathbed

Interesting.

I don't expect to live another 6 years - yet I am working harder than I ever have.

Financial priorities motivate me for my family's sake after I am gone. As time gets closer (months/weeks) I often wonder if I will feel or regret my decisions now even though I am so close to death.

However, in order to ensure my daughter (who is at age 6) has the best possible life - I need to work for it. It's complicated, but I don't think I will regret my decisions on my deathbed.

Then again, that's an awfully lonely place to be...
 
Everyone thats thinking now that they wouldn't change a thing and would do it over the same way may not still feel that way in their final moments. I think thats the take away.

I know you all cool, but still cool right to the end? :cool
 
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Everyone thats thinking now that they wouldn't change a thing and would do it over the same way may not still feel that way in their final moments. I think thats the take away.

I know you all cool, but still cool right to the end? :cool
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There are many, many things I would do differently - given the chance to change my decisions; however, I am faced with the brutal reality of my death (unless I am hit by a bus or something) of knowing what I will die of - in a few short years.

That being said: I can't focus on regret for the past. I can only live on thinking of the future and what is best for those living who depend on me. No regrets there, I think.
 
Terminal G said:
Interesting.

I don't expect to live another 6 years - yet I am working harder than I ever have.

Financial priorities motivate me for my family's sake after I am gone. As time gets closer (months/weeks) I often wonder if I will feel or regret my decisions now even though I am so close to death.

However, in order to ensure my daughter (who is at age 6) has the best possible life - I need to work for it. It's complicated, but I don't think I will regret my decisions on my deathbed.

Then again, that's an awfully lonely place to be...
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Wow... I don't even know what to say... I hope you're spending as much time as you can with your daughter... I just lost my Dad on Friday, and I've been pulling out memories from my childhood, things I haven't thought of in years, and they're absolute treasures. Make sure your daughter has those, too... and I'm so sorry for your situation... I can't even imagine... :(
 
Terminal G said:
There are many, many things I would do differently - given the chance to change my decisions; however, I am faced with the brutal reality of my death (unless I am hit by a bus or something) of knowing what I will die of - in a few short years.

That being said: I can't focus on regret for the past. I can only live on thinking of the future and what is best for those living who depend on me. No regrets there, I think.
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Im not familiar with your story, is it something you've written about on here? Sorry to hear if it is so certain.
Unfortunately for other amongst us, some here will beat you to that date.
 
Terminal G.

I am another who is a bit :wow

The subject of the thread is deep and thought provoking, but whatever reality is for you working for your daughter / family is the honorable deal. Man.

Righteous.

Interesting list of regrets. I am sure I am human enough to have some of them be apart of my final list, but I like where nucking futs was thinking.
 
i left home when i was 17, specifically to avoid regret and blaming someone else for my situation. i continued to avoid those things and was deliriously happy until the day i lost my grandmother. it snuck up on me. she was a very dramatic woman. in retrospect, i regret that i didn't believe her when she told me she was dying. i refused to. and i wasn't there with her when she did. i'll spend the rest of my life trying to forgive myself for that.
 
Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.
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I have my doubts about this little factoid she slipped in there, but otherwise, I think these are 5 things worth reminding oneself of now and then.
 
Terminal G said:
Interesting.

I don't expect to live another 6 years - yet I am working harder than I ever have.

Financial priorities motivate me for my family's sake after I am gone. As time gets closer (months/weeks) I often wonder if I will feel or regret my decisions now even though I am so close to death.

However, in order to ensure my daughter (who is at age 6) has the best possible life - I need to work for it. It's complicated, but I don't think I will regret my decisions on my deathbed.

Then again, that's an awfully lonely place to be...
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Damn. Your handle takes on a whole new level of meaning. :nchantr

Let's do a ride sometime. I've got a Weestrom too.
 
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