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Why deathbed regrets don't make good life guidance

Saturday May 10, 2025. 06:59 PM , from BoingBoing
Why deathbed regrets don't make good life guidance
The dying may be the worst people to tell you how to live.
On his blog, Rikard Hjort writes about what he calls the 'Deathbed Fallacy' — our misguided tendency to treat end-of-life regrets as universal life guidance. While palliative nurse Bronnie Ware's famous list of dying patients' regrets (including 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard' and 'I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself') has become self-help gospel, Hjort argues we should be skeptical of such wisdom. — Read the rest
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