re: The overwhelming thing people say on their deathbed- any guesses?

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AZBadgerFan

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After the abortion of a post you made, I'm going with "Shouldn't have wasted time on AZBadgerFan bullshite."

Many of the responses posted are "last words" (calling out to their mothers) and not necessarily life regrets.

I've sold medical devices my entire professional career and was shocked at how many people on the operating table were obese or generally unhealthy due to poor diet/lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol or a combination of all of the above. Back before the days of HIPAA we were able to access the patient charts in the OR and included on it was their medical history, details like "smoker", "drinker", etc. Two stories stand out:

- Sitting in on a quadruple bypass on an obese 47 year old woman. Her patient chart stated she had some type of stomach surgery (lap band or stomach stapling) at age 17 due to her weight. The circulating nurse and I were looking at the chart and the nurse looked at me crying and said "what a life this poor girl has had. I'm sure she was bullied then and I can't imagine what she has gone through since". That stuck with me, that behind every overweight person there are some psychological issues at play none of us can understand.

- Observing a total hip replacement on an obese woman. It took the orthropedic surgeon over an hour to cut through the fat with the Bovie and a scalpel just to access the surgical site and get to her femoral head to resect. He was struggling to cut while the surgical assistant was tryng to retract the fat. There must have been 5" of fat to cut through and he was looking up at me and cussing the whole way. That visual stuck with me and I vowed to always stay in the best shape possible. In that case and the one I posted above the quality of life for both for the rest of their lives had to have been extremely poor.

John Wilkes Booth's last words were "useless, useless".
Is it that?

When I hear deathbed I think of a person literally about to die. When I had Covid in 2021 and was literally in this position in ICU, I had a conversation with my grandmother that has been dead since 2019. I was pretty much incoherent and maybe it was a dream but it felt like it was as real as me typing this. I mentioned this to one of the nurses after I got to rehab and she says it happens to a bunch of people about to pass that they start breathing weird and start seeing dead people and calling their names. Some actually reach out as if they are embracing them. She said seeing this turned her into a devout Christian. Also you see a lot of dudes in combat that are about to go cry out for their moms and beg to go home. That scene in Forrest Gump with Bubba is pretty damn accurate.

Now deathbed as in they got a few days I could see a laundry list of things that center around regrets. Pretty much like I should have done this or I could have done that better. I honestly think if you are a Christian and know that this life is just a stepping stone to eternal life, checking out is not that big of a deal.

I like me and generally express my feelings to the detriment of those around me.

You mean No regerts.

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LSU misses M.T.Carleton

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Yes I took his class - I enjoyed it.

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