You don’t have to wait until you’re dying to know what your deathbed regrets will be.

We can study the lives of others and what they shared at the end, or use our imagination to project ourselves forward in time. You might imagine something terrible happening to you, such as being diagnosed with a terminal illness—then examine the first thoughts that pop into your mind. What is it that you think you’ll want to do with your last months on earth? What will you wish you had done more of?