Common themes surfaced again and again...

Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives.

She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.

"When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently," she says, "common themes surfaced again and again."