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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: 1) by DeVilla on Sunday November 11 2018, @12:42AM
It's interesting you say that. My dad took a stress test for a physical at work when he was 60. He was told the results showed a "physical age" in the 30s. In other words, his body was behaving like that of most people in their 30s. Many of his coworker who were in their 30s had results putting them at twice their age.
My dad was still 60 but depending on what you are using "age" to tell you, counting orbits might not be that useful.