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No Regrets: Living with Dying
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Daily Good
Posted: March 8th, 2015
http://www.dailygood.org/story/965/no-regrets-living-with-dy...
With Stage 4 metastasized breast cancer, Patti ... wanted to know how to live life with no regrets. Out of Pattis vision and sense of urgency, the No Regrets Project was born. Between radiation treatments, spinal surgery and a bucket list trip to Alaska, Patti wrote essays, talked with anyone who would listen, dreamed and created. In the end, she developed five simple, personal practices to help herself live life more fully: be grateful every day, trust take the risk, courage to be me, choose joy, and love myself & share it. While the phrases may be simple, accomplishing them is not. The development of the No Regrets Project is Patti Pansas legacy to all of us. Each day, Patti wrote in her gratitude journal. The simplest things caught her attention. I am grateful for a little bird sitting on a branch outside of my bedroom window, I love to feel the warmth in the sunlight crossing my bed, and more. This practice of gratitude helped her to focus on the things that she appreciated most, rather than on her declining health and the difficult medical procedures that she endured. Patti learned that trust requires an element of surrender. With diminishing energy, she simply followed the flow of suggestions and referrals to find the resources that were needed in a short period of time. Patti spent the last five months of her life celebrating, sharing, creating, loving, and living. On October 23, 2013, under hospice care, Patti died at home with her family. She died with no regrets.
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