Top Five Regrets

I'm not sure quite what I make of this - it is a Guardian report from a few months back on a palliative care nurse who has recorded her 'Top Five Regrets of the Dying' in a blog and book.

They include a range of different wishes, including:

"I wish I hadn't worked so hard" (every male patient) - which is more about not giving all your time to work and spending more with family, children etc, and

"I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me."

But the piece does, I have to say, come across as a highly sentimental piece of writing. It grates badly.  So while I can see and agree with what is being said, the manner of it is a real barrier. At least for me.