It is common to disclose the expected mortality experience of a writer of life insurance or annuities. However, the user of that information also needs to recognize the effect of alternative scenarios. To provide useful information, these scenarios are not necessarily always the same, that is for example, they may involve the level, the expected change or shocks. The objective of this paper is to explore the needs of users for this information and propose one or more sets of types of scenarios that may prove useful information for the audiences of this information.