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Great List: Top 5 Deathbed Regrets

To live a meaningful, fulfilling life, you have to accept that it’ll eventually come to an end, says Shoshana Ungerleider.

Over the years of caring for ill hospital patients, Ungerleider — a doctor who specializes in internal medicine — has observed regrets among people near the end of their lives, she tells CNBC Make It.

“Being proximate to the end of your life really allows you — pushes you — to be present because that’s all you have,” says Ungerleider, 44, host of the upcoming “Before We Go” podcast and founder of the nonprofit End Well Foundation. “That is true for all of us. Throughout our lives, this present moment is all we have.”

Here are five regrets she says people often express:

I didn’t spend enough time with the people I love.
I worked too much and missed out on life.
I let fear control my decisions and didn’t take risks.
I wish I’d been braver in the face of uncertainty or opportunity.
I focused too much on the future and lost touch with the present.

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