The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.