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  • Mordred_85@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•death rule
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    Notice who’s in the sample: people who had enough to afford end-of-life care and was open enough for a stranger to sit by the bed and listen. That’s mostly the middle class, privileged compared to those who die with nobody asking them anything. But read regret #2 again. These are people who worked their whole lives producing someone else’s income, with better rights than a servant but the same basic position. At the very end, they see it, when they don’t have to work for somebody else anymore! Above them, the wealthy die in private settings, with staff under confidentiality agreements. Ware couldn’t have gotten near them, and their nurses couldn’t have talked even if she had. Below the middle class, nobody has the time for retrospection. So this isn’t the regret of the dying. It’s the regret of the people who were allowed to be asked and had education and money to talk to someone.