“When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled,” she shared.
“Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.”
Shoshana Ungerleider, a doctor who specializes in internal medicine, has since echoed similar sentiments about what she’s found a lot of dying patients express regrets about.
Listing five, Ungerleider said that one is: ‘I let fear control my decisions and didn’t take risks.’
She told CNBC Make It that the others are:
- I didn’t spend enough time with the people I love
- I worked too much and missed out on life
- I wish I’d been braver in the face of uncertainty or opportunity
- I focused too much on the future and lost touch with the present
In a bid to prevent having these regrets when your time comes, Ungerleider says that – at whatever age you are – you should be ‘reflecting on our own mortality throughout life’.
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