Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

Finding the courage to act or surrender will never be as painful as lying on a deathbed with regrets.

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Surrender is not giving up, far from it. Surrender takes an enormous amount of courage.

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Of all of the regrets and lessons shared with me as I sat beside their beds, the regret of not having lived a life true to themselves was the most common of all.

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The most important thing I have learnt in life though, the absolutely most important, is that compassion starts with yourself.

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Once we acknowledge that limited time is remaining, although we don’t know if that is years, weeks or hours, we are less driven by ego or by what other people think. Instead, we are more driven by what our hearts truly want. Acknowledging our inevitable, approaching death offers us the opportunity to find greater purpose and satisfaction in the time we have remaining.

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They say that everything comes down to love or fear: every emotion, every action, and every thought.

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Stella’s biggest frustration was that she was ready to die and it wasn’t happening. I would arrive of a morning and ask how she was feeling. ‘Well, how do you think I am feeling?’ she would reply. ‘I am still here and I don’t want to be.’

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Living regret-free is not something achievable in a flash. It is created by an ongoing day-to-day process of conscious decisions, loving actions to ourselves, and a whole bucket full of courage.

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I remembered the importance of surrender, of letting go and allowing nature to weave its magic. The same force that balances the flow of the tides, the force that sees seasons come and go and creates life, was surely capable of bringing the opportunity to me I needed.