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Regret – why do we feel this negative emotion? Is it right to live with it, or should we simply get over our mistakes of the past?
Mike Williams speaks to a palliative care nurse who recorded the regrets of the dying, and the man with 50,000 regrets, all entrusted to him by anonymous strangers who have confessed the biggest regrets of their lives on his website.
(Photo: Statue of woman with head in hand. Credit: Cheryl E. Davis/Shutterstock)
By BBC World Service4.6
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Regret – why do we feel this negative emotion? Is it right to live with it, or should we simply get over our mistakes of the past?
Mike Williams speaks to a palliative care nurse who recorded the regrets of the dying, and the man with 50,000 regrets, all entrusted to him by anonymous strangers who have confessed the biggest regrets of their lives on his website.
(Photo: Statue of woman with head in hand. Credit: Cheryl E. Davis/Shutterstock)

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