The negative narrative around ageing does not encourage people to think in a constructive way about their future selves.  Our own internal ageism may be a barrier. People don’t want to think about getting older, according to Allyson Whisker. If you’re healthy and able-bodied you might not want to think about being frail or needing care, and you certainly won’t want to think about your own mortality.

At the very end, most of us just want a ‘good’ death. What this means to each of us is different, but the confidence of having a completed Carpe Dien Plan might be just what’s needed at a difficult time.   The Plan comes ready for use on the computer if you are computer confident; but it can also be supplied as a paper document to be completed by hand and without a computer.