Prevention can make a significant contribution to a longer and healthier life. However, individual behavioural prevention has an influence on lifestyle with regard to how one deals with time. After all, prevention is always about making decisions in the present to change anticipated conditions in the future in a beneficial way. It is associated with challenges and an increase in responsibility. Its results are uncertain. The essay asks how one can respond to these characteristics of individual behavioural prevention. One possible response is to adopt an attitude of irony.
Urban Wiesing (Mon,) studied this question.