Notice who’s in the sample: people who had enough to afford end-of-life care and was open enough for a stranger to sit by the bed and listen. That’s mostly the middle class, privileged compared to those who die with nobody asking them anything.
But read regret #2 again. These are people who worked their whole lives producing someone else’s income, with better rights than a servant but the same basic position. At the very end, they see it, when they don’t have to work for somebody else anymore!
Above them, the wealthy die in private settings, with staff under confidentiality agreements. Ware couldn’t have gotten near them, and their nurses couldn’t have talked even if she had. Below the middle class, nobody has the time for retrospection.
So this isn’t the regret of the dying. It’s the regret of the people who were allowed to be asked and had education and money to talk to someone.
Notice who’s in the sample: people who had enough to afford end-of-life care and was open enough for a stranger to sit by the bed and listen. That’s mostly the middle class, privileged compared to those who die with nobody asking them anything. But read regret #2 again. These are people who worked their whole lives producing someone else’s income, with better rights than a servant but the same basic position. At the very end, they see it, when they don’t have to work for somebody else anymore! Above them, the wealthy die in private settings, with staff under confidentiality agreements. Ware couldn’t have gotten near them, and their nurses couldn’t have talked even if she had. Below the middle class, nobody has the time for retrospection. So this isn’t the regret of the dying. It’s the regret of the people who were allowed to be asked and had education and money to talk to someone.
I have a >!deserved!< reputation for sometimes having a stick up my arse
But you have stick-ception. The stick up your arse has a stick up its arse.
I am the stick, and this look indeed like an arsehole
Not everything is class war, knock it off
Yeah it is.
Oh how I wish that were true
The only justified war is cladd war.
Lemmy users have the uncanny ability to spin everything as class warfare. Everything.
Merci pour votre précieuse contribution, j’ai hâte de lire la prochaine contribution pleine d’esprit. Bisous bisous
Which country was this done in though? That would only apply in the US.
Quick edit - just looked it up, apparently it was done in Australia.
Not as different as I’d like.