This had happend to me, and It is not pretty.

Perhaps this sounds hard-hearted, but I never considered this to be that crucial. You don't know for sure when someone is going to die. What matters is that you have a strong relationship with them long before that time comes, so they will already know they are loved.

When people tend to start showing regrets is usually when they are about to die themself or there going through the attic and find a picture or a letter from someone theyve loved before and they start to realize what theyve had and what theyve let go of ever so thoughtlessly and the old saying comes true you dont realize what you got until its gone