The dying may be the worst people to tell you how to live.
On his blog, Rikard Hjort writes about what he calls the “Deathbed Fallacy” — our misguided tendency to treat end-of-life regrets as universal life guidance. While palliative nurse Bronnie Ware’s famous list of dying patients’ regrets (including “I wish I hadn’t worked so hard” and “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself”) has become self-help gospel, Hjort argues we should be skeptical of such wisdom. — Read the rest
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