Top Life Regret of Dying Hospital Patients

How do we live by a “Regret Minimization” framework? Well, studies show that we should begin considering it.

I recently read about a nurse in Australia who spent more than a decade counseling dying people. Over that time span, she began recording the top regrets that people have on their death bed.

After 12 years, she concluded that the most common regret of all was this:

“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”