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Why deathbed regrets don't make good life guidance

Saturday May 10, 2025. 06:59 PM , from BoingBoing
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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