The eighth and final stage of Erikson’s psychosocial development model is integrity versus despair. This stage occurs during the end of the individual’s life, from around the age of sixty-five until death. It attempts to answer the question, “What have I done with my life?”, including regrets, satisfaction, and choices made. Erikson (1967) views this stage as “the ego’s accrued assurance of its proclivity for order and meaning [...] the acceptance of one’s one and only life cycle and of the people who have become significant to it [...] a sense of comradeship withmen and women of distant times who have created orders and objects and sayings conveying human dignity and love.” Being higher in integrity entails that the individual has successfully
