Well It Isn't

Much can be learned about how to make good life decisions by finding out what people's biggest regrets are. The five biggest regrets are:

• I wish I'd dared to live a life true to myself, not what others expected of me.
• I wish I hadn't worked so hard.

Death and disease are unavoidable aspects of life. However, in the West, we've developed a delusional denial of this. We pour billions into prolonging life, most employed in our final years, but fail to value life. The most regrets of the dying are cited as follows:

• I wish I'd ha...

American popular culture is overflowing with doomsday prophecies and end-of-the-world scenarios.. is there some weird kind of wish-fulfillment at work in all these visions of near-universal death and destruction?

Wish fulfillment refers to the satisfaction of a desire through an involuntary...