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Title: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Alex Libman on April 01, 2009, 08:13:07 PM
Imagine by the time you're really old -- yaay! -- immortality has been invented!  You can "Benjamin Button (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Case_of_Benjamin_Button_(film))" your body to look a younger age, then stay at that age forever.  What age would you choose?

(I guess you can't go younger than a certain age because your brain has to fit into the skull.)
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Lindsey on April 01, 2009, 08:19:28 PM
Oh probably around 25.  Young enough to still be pretty attractive, but not teeny bopper young looking. 
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: MandaDanda on April 02, 2009, 09:02:23 AM
Oh probably around 25.  Young enough to still be pretty attractive, but not teeny bopper young looking. 

I chose 30 to 32 for the same reasons. Except I feel like I get taken slightly more seriously since turning 30.
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Lindsey on April 02, 2009, 09:17:57 AM
Oh probably around 25.  Young enough to still be pretty attractive, but not teeny bopper young looking. 

I chose 30 to 32 for the same reasons. Except I feel like I get taken slightly more seriously since turning 30.

I did think about that before I posted what I did...and I think you might be right.  So I'm still left pondering my decision. 
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Alex Libman on April 02, 2009, 09:19:24 AM
I chose 30 to 32 for the same reasons. Except I feel like I get taken slightly more seriously since turning 30.

Does that have more to do with your appearance or your actions?  Because you'd still mentally be yourself in this hypothetical scenario, no matter how old you look / feel.
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Laetitia on April 02, 2009, 09:26:25 AM
Oh probably around 25.  Young enough to still be pretty attractive, but not teeny bopper young looking. 

I chose 30 to 32 for the same reasons. Except I feel like I get taken slightly more seriously since turning 30.

I did think about that before I posted what I did...and I think you might be right.  So I'm still left pondering my decision. 

I'm far healthier now than I was at 25, so I'd have to go with mid to late 30s. I wouldn't mind at all if the immortalization process smoothed away a few scars & stretch marks, though I'd rather be as I am now with them, than as I was a decade ago.
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Rillion on April 02, 2009, 10:48:04 AM
I chose 30 to 32 for the same reasons. Except I feel like I get taken slightly more seriously since turning 30.

Does that have more to do with your appearance or your actions?  Because you'd still mentally be yourself in this hypothetical scenario, no matter how old you look / feel.

True, but people would still treat you as if you're the age that you look.  Remember in Interview with a Vampire, when Claudia throws a fit because Louis keeps buying her dolls even though she's mentally probably 30 years old? 

Even so, I'd say 17 for me since I was swim team then and had a kickass body, except that a) I got LASIK surgery at 22, so I'd have to get the surgery all over again, which would suck, and b) I couldn't drink legally, which would also suck. 

Edit: Oh, and also all of the other things you can't do legally unless you're 18 or older.  Hmm, never mind.  Better change it to 22. 
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: patrickj on April 02, 2009, 11:01:37 AM
Its hard to say when i still have many years to live, but i'd say lower mid 20's.   
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Elitist Bitch on April 02, 2009, 11:10:33 AM
I'd say now, at 25. I'm healthier than I've ever been and I'd rather be immortalized at this point than 30 because of the health problems I'm likely to have by then.
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: CaL DaVe on April 02, 2009, 01:32:54 PM
I'd say now, at 25. I'm healthier than I've ever been and I'd rather be immortalized at this point than 30 because of the health problems I'm likely to have by then.

You'd be immortal, so you would not have health problems...would you?
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Laetitia on April 02, 2009, 01:41:32 PM
I'd say now, at 25. I'm healthier than I've ever been and I'd rather be immortalized at this point than 30 because of the health problems I'm likely to have by then.

Are you planning to lead a really hard life over the next five years? Taking up a sport or hobby that's likely to cause dismemberment or scarring?
Because you really do have a bit more time before you're hit with the ailments of age.
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: CaL DaVe on April 02, 2009, 01:47:24 PM
I said 30.
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Rillion on April 02, 2009, 01:49:12 PM
I'd say now, at 25. I'm healthier than I've ever been and I'd rather be immortalized at this point than 30 because of the health problems I'm likely to have by then.

You'd be immortal, so you would not have health problems...would you?

At 30?  She'd have immortal health problems, probably.  Imagine being immortal but with a bad back.  Suckage. 
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Jetfire on April 02, 2009, 01:57:46 PM
I would wanna be immortalized at 27. I wanna be in my prime but be taken seriously throughout life. I dont get much respect being 21. Most people judge me as some crazy irresponsible frat guy.
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: davann on April 02, 2009, 02:57:43 PM
19. The allure of underage drinking would always be there. Nothing like getting the forbidden fruit to add some spice to it. Plus, who does not look good at 19? All the acne problems are done and the gangilness of the other teens years are through too. Also, it would far easier for me to obtain my goal for my mid life crisis.
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Alex Libman on April 02, 2009, 09:13:11 PM
19. The allure of underage drinking would always be there. Nothing like getting the forbidden fruit to add some spice to it.  [...]

Well, we're talking about the future here, and one where technological progress seems to be very fruitful, so we might as well assume that there are no criminal "drinking age" laws anymore.  I mean, clearly this future scenario doesn't have a nanny state, because a nanny state would never allow people to live very long.  It would screw up their centrally-planned socialist medicine routine quite a bit...  But, yeah, the "allure" may still be there.  :lol:
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Elitist Bitch on April 03, 2009, 12:14:14 PM
I'd say now, at 25. I'm healthier than I've ever been and I'd rather be immortalized at this point than 30 because of the health problems I'm likely to have by then.

Are you planning to lead a really hard life over the next five years? Taking up a sport or hobby that's likely to cause dismemberment or scarring?
Because you really do have a bit more time before you're hit with the ailments of age.

I got hit by a car at 17, and have been in numerous motorcycle accidents (dirt bikes). I still dirtbike on a fairly regular basis, and am considering taking up roller derby, so...
Title: Re: At which age would you immortalize your body?
Post by: Laetitia on April 03, 2009, 01:48:59 PM
I'd say now, at 25. I'm healthier than I've ever been and I'd rather be immortalized at this point than 30 because of the health problems I'm likely to have by then.

Are you planning to lead a really hard life over the next five years? Taking up a sport or hobby that's likely to cause dismemberment or scarring?
Because you really do have a bit more time before you're hit with the ailments of age.

I got hit by a car at 17, and have been in numerous motorcycle accidents (dirt bikes). I still dirtbike on a fairly regular basis, and am considering taking up roller derby, so...

Then 25 sounds perfect.