We explore how contemplating the end can recalibrate the middle, drawing lessons from bedside moments in palliative and hospice care to ask who we are becoming and why it matters. We reset our metrics from productivity to presence and choose a path of surrender, healing, and purpose.

• the core question: who do you want to be when you die
• reputation versus integrity and the hidden, quiet self
• lessons from end‑of‑life rooms and real regrets
• death as a clarifying lens for life choices
• presence over productivity, peace over hustle
• becoming on purpose through small daily decisions
• faith, surrender, and staying rooted in what lasts
• practical self‑inventory: what forms you and what deforms you

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