{"id":1501,"date":"2012-03-24T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2015-04-12T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T15:04:54","slug":"art-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/life\/life-experiments\/art-dying","title":{"rendered":"The art of dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Death is very likely the single best invention of Life&#8221;<\/em> said Steve Jobs during the Stanford speech, one of the most beautiful talks about life I heard, and one I particularly like to listen every now and then.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Remembering that I&#8217;ll be dead soon is the most important tool I&#8217;ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything \u2014 all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure &#8211; these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The future end is actually something we should remember to fully enjoy our present.<br \/>\nAnother inspiration about the art of living, comes from the book &#8220;<a title=\"Amazon book\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Five-Regrets-Dying-ebook\/dp\/B0079HLDEE\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1332584618&amp;sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\">The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing<\/a>&#8220;, where a nurse working with terminally ill patients summarize the more commons regrets that people have at the end of their life:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. I wish I&#8217;d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. I wish I hadn&#8217;t worked so hard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. I wish I&#8217;d had the courage to express my feelings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is there an art of dying?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see it. 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