On Monday 7th April 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing by Bronnie Ware.
In this summary of The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware. I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying is split into an introduction and section for each of the five regrets (which would consist of 3-7 chapters).
In the introduction Bronnie tells the reader about her life and how she ended up taking care of people in the final days on Earth. Bronnie’s story involves travel, a very unconventional change of work, and in many ways living a life that is different to the majority.
Then the book goes into each of the five regrets. For every regret, Bronnie will share a few stories of the people she worked with and how it came to be that they shared their ‘regret’ with her. With some of the regrets Bronnie shares how someone lived their life in a way they regret now – but why it happened. This allows the reader to be able to reflect on if they are living their life in a similar way and plant the seed of whether they’ll regret that in the future.
Given the title of the book these aren’t regrets that she heard once. They are regrets she heard from numerous people. Sometimes it might be from someone in the last few days, but sometimes in their last few weeks or months. Sometimes it was too late to do anything different, but in some cases, there were stories of people taking actions in their final days to (partially) address their regrets.
Then Bronnie also shares how hearing these regrets helped inform her approach of living a regret-free life. And the book is intended to leave the reader thinking about they can also reduce the regret they feel, by living the life they want now.
That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing by Bronnie Ware.
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing by Bronnie Ware was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.
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