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from the does-the-pensioner-want-to-repay-his-benefits-and-go-back-to-work,-too? dept.
In the quixotic battle against old age, some people use skin care and spin class.
That’s not enough for Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old who feels like he’s in his 40s. The Dutch pensioner is asking a court in his hometown of Arnhem, southeast of Amsterdam, to change his birth certificate so that it says he took his first breath on March 11, 1969, rather than on March 11, 1949. The judges heard his case Monday and promised they would render a verdict in the next several weeks.
Ratelband sees his request as no different from a petition to change his name or the gender he was assigned at birth — and isn’t bothered that this comparison might offend transgender people, whose medical needs have been recognized by the American Medical Association. It comes down to free will, he maintains.
I want to be recognized as an alien trapped in an Earthling's body.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Friday November 09 2018, @12:44PM
Now, now, we have a nice War on Age (and Age Discrimination) going on here, let's not muddy the waters by dragging drugs into it, with one exception. If it's the magic pill that restores people to youth, so that we can all live forever (and behave like teens again?), then, yeah, that would have a bearing on this matter.
A tripling of life expectancy would cause profound changes to society. And I'm not at all sure if it would be a net benefit.