18. NHS - David, Psychotherapist, London

David is a psychotherapist who specialises in end-of-life care. In his unique position of seeing people in their final moments, he reveals that he “can become something of a secular priest”. The main regret his patients have is that they were “deferring their lives”. The most heartening expressions he has heard before death is that his patients have no regrets and that they did what they wanted to do while they could.