You know you are dying, how does this change how you've placed your priorities?

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I have for most of my life re-considered the question of life and death, and putting death into perspective can change how we view life. If I were dying, and face it, we are all dying, but if you knew it was emminent and soon and you have the opportunity to reconsider your life's focus, what would it be? I had the opportunity to be a professional bowler, but will I wish I had focused on this and been a better bowler? I think not. I consider the man Schindler, at the end of the war he suddenly was no longer satisfied with the fact that he saved the lives of many Jews in Germany, he wept because the reality of the number of people who died soaked in and now the war is over and he no longer has the opportunity to save another. Instead of elation, he wept because he had a ring that could have saved another, a car that maybe could have saved 5 more, etc. I think at deaths door we will have this type of view. Myself, I am a Christian, I have had breathing problems in the past, and one night I thouht I was going to be dying soon, and suddenly I had a realization of what my life was a culmination of. I saw the selfishness, the "I" I put into my life, the hopelessness of knowing death is coming and not being able to change that fact, but I suddenly realized there were times I have hurt or disappointed someone to protect myself or for my own gain, and shame and desperation set in heavily tearing at my very soul. Being a Christian I wished I had focused more of my life around the Bible and the spirit of the Bible, love. Putting others first I now know that when my life is over, I will not take my newest computer with me, neither I nor the richest man in town will take our check book with us, nothing of earthly or material value will be worth anything. Will i consider that that new computer might have put food on the table of a hungry neighbor? Will I weep that my gold ring could have saved one more?.... have you ever considered death and what will truly be important, not on earthly terms, but on spiritual terms and how your decisions in this life will affect your heart when your chance to change things has come to a close?