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Ware first shared the insights in a 2009 blog post, "Regrets of the Dying". [1] [2] The blog post was widely shared worldwide and by 2012 had been read by eight million people. [3] In 2012 Ware expanded her blog post into a book memoir, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, which was translated into 27 languages. [4] [3]
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and questioning one's beliefs, actions, and purpose in life. [2] The words were supposedly spoken by Socrates at his trial after he chose death, rather than exile. They represent (in modern terms) the noble choice, that is, the choice of death in the face of an alternative. [3]
[16] In this fashion, the dying person is essentially signing their soul and spirit over to God, thus partaking in this quasi-legal practice and understanding of death. Also, The Book's instruction to question the dying person is striking material that resembles a quasi-legal practice and understanding of death.
Re-humanize the person. When we hold a grudge against someone (even if we feel 100% justified in our anger) it is easy to make them into a cartoon villain, and we forget that they, too, are human ...
[5] — Ḫattušili I, Hittite king (17th century BCE), probably addressing his wife or favorite concubine and expressing his fear of death while being gravely ill. [note 1] "Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him." [6] [7] [8]
After hearing her sister's sobs, Kourtney asked what the issue was, and then responded with one of the show's most famous retorts: "Kim, there's people that are dying."
Partial truths are characterized by malicious intent, and therefore, honest people should not excuse them as containing a "rational kernel." [ 17 ] Confabulation (or honest lie) may be identified by verbal statements or actions that inaccurately describe the history, background, and present situations.
“That’s nearly 17,000 people dying from prescription opiate overdoses every year. And more than 400,000 go to an emergency room for that reason.” Clinics that dispensed painkillers proliferated with only the loosest of safeguards, until a recent coordinated federal-state crackdown crushed many of the so-called “pill mills.”