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And sunscreen... don't forget the sunscreen. Flippancy aside, there's nothing that makes these 'end of life' desires any more meaningful than 'prime of life' i

• gentschev 15y ago
  Agreed. If anything, you won't have to worry about those death-bed regrets for long. Also, this type of thing always seems skewed to people who worked a lot. What do the under-achievers regret?
  • michaeldhopkins 15y ago
    According to the article, the #1 regret is that dreams were not pursued which suggests a lot of hard work. Taken together with #2 this suggests a startup founder might regret not working efficiently enough.
• GrangalanJr 15y ago
  Those who have lived longer do have one advantage of perspective: they have years of experience pursuing many "prime of life" impulses / goals / desires, and are therefore able to look back on and judge the (negative and positive) results of such pursuit. Of course, the experiences and feelings of one person or a handful of people cannot generalize to everyone, but I definitely think there is some value in considering the assessments of those who have "been there, done that."