ABSTRACT
Introduction During the last few years, the relationships between work, life, and death have become central to my thinking and writing. This obviously has to do with the fact that I am no longer a young man. I have, as c. G. Jung once put it, reached the noon of my life and am beginning now to face its afternoon. Particularly for men, this is a point in time which provides opportunity to contemplate the realities of one's inner and outer world (cf. Jaques 1970). Metaphorically the question is: 'now that I have raised a son, planted a tree and built a house what do I expect from the remainder of life?'
