Top 5 regrets of the dying....

you should never regret any of your choices deathbed or not. Except your mistakes and move on, no point crying about it at any point in your life. You learn from experiences not by trying to avoid them.

Grass is greener on the other side until you step in some cow muck.
 
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A few months back me and my girlfriend were at a BBQ. Someone my girlfriend knew was very upset and said that she'd just found out one of her best friends had found out he had cancer that day.

Last night my girlfriend had been out and came home to say that she had been speaking to this person again. The guy that had cancer had died 8 weeks after that night. Only 3 weeks before that he went to the doctors with back pain and was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer.

I had never met this guy, but it really affected me. I think it was because he left behind a 19 month old child and we have a son of a similar age. You never know what is round the next corner.

I read through those 5 regrets and would have some of them. Time to make some changes I think.
 
OP that is a brilliant article. Quite an eye-opener, and a bit scary to be quite honest.

iamtheoneneo said:
you should never regret any of your choices deathbed or not. Except your mistakes and move on, no point crying about it at any point in your life. You learn from experiences not by trying to avoid them.

Grass is greener on the other side until you step in some cow muck.
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This is a bit of a ridiculous comment to make given that you are talking about people who are on their deathbed, going through (and having gone through) emotions that must be impossible to describe, let alone imagine.
 
Random Guy said:
This is a bit of a ridiculous comment to make given that you are talking about people who are on their deathbed, going through (and having gone through) emotions that must be impossible to describe, let alone imagine.
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No its not. If you die just thinking 'what ifs' then your a fool. You have to accept that many things in life are simply down to chance and you will **** things up but thats all part of being human. Thinking just before your about to die about how your life could have been great if only X or Y had happened is as ridiculous as people wanting to go back in time to stop wars etc.
 
Top 5 regrets of the dying....


Probably eating that moldy sausage in the fridge or not look right when crossing a road.
 
Only five? I've got loads of regrets, I don't see a lot of point in thinking about them when I can't fix anything. I can't say I'm that bothered by dying with the same regrets either, I'm not going to feel any better about dying.
 
Number 2: I wish I didn't work so hard. Perhaps if wages were more equal we wouldn't have to spend most of our adult lives trying to put food on the table. This is the communist in me speaking now.
 
When I really thought I was going to die the first time, my only regret was that I wasn't with my Wife and Son at the time......the thought of never seeing them or telling them how I felt about them, even though they knew how I felt was one of the only things in my mind, also an almost selfish need to see them one more time...the thought of dying without that seemed almost like a punishment of some kind.

Which is why from that point I always carried a letter to both my boy and my wife whenever I was on operations....just in case.
 
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iamtheoneneo said:
No its not. If you die just thinking 'what ifs' then your a fool. You have to accept that many things in life are simply down to chance and you will **** things up but thats all part of being human. Thinking just before your about to die about how your life could have been great if only X or Y had happened is as ridiculous as people wanting to go back in time to stop wars etc.
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That is purely an opinion you hold, based on probably zero experience. The article is about a collection of findings, based on actual experience, which is why I took issue with your comment in the first place.
 
Castiel said:
Which is why from that point I always carried a letter to both my boy and my wife whenever I was on operations....just in case.
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A tough one to write?

I've thought about whether I'd write one or not. Many say it's unlucky to write such a letter. Think I'd still have to though.
 
I've already promised myself that I won't work so many hours as of next year. It's really drained me and prevented me from achieving a few of my personal goals. :/
 
EdGey said:
A tough one to write?

I've thought about whether I'd write one or not. Many say it's unlucky to write such a letter. Think I'd still have to though.
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I was always of the opinion that it was tempting fate, however experience taught me different.

I wrote a different letter to each of them before every operation....I gave them to my wife after each one and then wrote another......my son will be given his when he is old enough to appreciate them.
 
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