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[quote=Anonymous]OP here's an article for you.

What the dying really regret

"Everyone told me -- my family, my school, my church. When I got older, magazines and salesgirls and boyfriends (told me), even if they didn't say so out loud. The world's been telling me for 75 years that my body is bad. First for being female, then for being fat and then for being sick."...

"But the one thing I never did understand is, why does everyone else want me to hate my body? What does it matter to them?"

There are many regrets and unfulfilled wishes that patients have shared with me in the months before they die. But the stories about the time they waste hating their bodies, abusing it or letting it be abused -- the years people spend not appreciating their body until they are close to leaving it -- are some of the saddest....

Sometimes, it's based on their allegedly unattractive physical features. They might be ashamed of their weight, their body hair, their thin lips or droopy eyes....

Either way, the result of the messages is the same: They lived their lives thinking their bodies were something to tolerate at best, something to criticize, to despise, at worst -- a problem they could never correct....

And to think I spent all those years criticizing how it looked and never noticing how good it felt -- until now when it never feels good."

Too often, it's only as a patient realizes that he or she will lose their body that they finally appreciate how truly wonderful it is.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/health/dying-regret-body-hate/index.html?hpt=he_c1[/quote]

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