MAKING a will is a socially approved of activity like taking exercise. I’m all for it. For other people. It may be irrational to believe that taking exercise or writing a will would kill you, but what about Jim Fixx, I ask you?

A left-handed former Army reservist who had sued the Minister for Defence arising out of injuries he sustained by firing a gun which it was claimed was suitable only for right-handed persons, has today settled his High Court action.