1. Articulate the value of positive relationships. Understand the power of intimate relationships.



Section 1 Exercise 1 Deathbed Exercise

Sometimes it helps to evaluate an experience from the perspective of one's own mortality. It helps you decide what is important and what is trivial. This exercise encourages you to reflect on the relative roles you want your relationships, your career and your accomplishments to play in your life.

Imagine that you are in the last hours of your life. To get there, click on this image and answer the questions that follow.

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Who is with you? What have you accomplished in your life that you are most proud of? What would you not want to regret?

The clinical correlate refers to the concept of a good death, which includes psychological, physical and spiritual dimensions. The correlate asks you to relate thoughts about your own death to societal interpretations of what it means to die well.

Clinical correlate 2: A good death