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As life draws to a close, most people find themselves looking back, not at what they did, but at what they didn’t.
During a recent commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania, oncologist and author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee noted that many people spend their final moments expressing love, asking for forgiveness, and offering gratitude. But they also carry regrets, some quietly, some aloud.
Bronnie Ware, a former palliative care nurse and author of The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, spent eight years caring for terminally ill patients. In that time, she listened closely to what people wished they’d done differently. “There were big lessons in the things they said,” she shared in an interview with The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, via CNBC.Continue reading…
