No. 1 on a dying doctor's list

Shuichi Otsu, a Japanese palliative care physician, attended the final days of more than a thousand terminally ill patients. The first of the twenty-five regrets he compiled was not taking health seriously; the second was not quitting smoking. On the ward, people did not talk about returns or promotions. One patient said through the oxygen mask, "If I'd quit then, I could have held my granddaughter."