On Living: Life’s Greatest Lessons and Last Thoughts From the Dying

What are the top regrets of the dying? That's what Kerry Egan a hospice chaplain learned as she listened to her patients on their deathbeds witnessing what she calls the 'spiritual work of dying' - the work of finding or making meaning of one's life the experiences it contained and the people who have touched it. In this book she recalls the stories she heard - stories of hope and regret shame and pride mystery and revelation and secrets held too long.This isn't a book about dying - it's a book about living. Each of Egan's patients taught her something; in this moving and beautiful book she imparts their poignant and profound lessons on how to live a life without regrets.