grammar opinion request

[ajva]

Something I've been thinking about for a while: does the impersonal third person possessive require an apostrophe? It seems it is always written without. Can you give me a reference as to why this is correct? For example:

This is a guide for how to live ones life.

As opposed to

This is a guide for how to live one's life.

References welcome.

Comments

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Also I note there are lots of pronouns that surely use apostrophes - everyone's, somebody's, no one's. Okay, that doesn't answer the question, but presumably means there isn't a simple rule that all pronouns don't have apostrophes?

[ajva.livejournal.com]

"no one's" is obviously the classic one there, isn't it? I do think that we have a case here.