The 5 Greatest Regrets of the Dying

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...

Regret is a feeling everyone experiences at one point in their life or several. It's a negative emotion that comes from the time we reflect on past decisions and wish we did something different.

Studies show that the most commonly reported regrets involved romance,...