It’s not like there are people checking for immortals, I think it would be flagged by a dmv employee or something when they dont believe a clear 21 year old is actually 150. Let’s assume it’s current day im caught and not bring speculation on what the US is like in the year 2139 is like.
If your goal is to avoid that, and you look 21 permanently a la Highlander, you probably want to get new one every thirty years or so, starting over as a “runaway teen” or “refugee” who lacks identity documents with a nominal age of fifteen.
Or just commit identity theft. That one you could probably do once a decade, or more; just keep a running file of unsolved disappearances of children and teens and pull another one out whenever the age more-or-less fits.
As someone who isn’t an immortal Highlander, this works.
That sounds exactly like something an immortal Highlander would say
we’re already almost at the point where biometric tech will make all that irrelevant, especially facial recognition. to really fly under the radar in the future you’re gonna need to hack security systems and erase your data every so often.
Or remodel your face
But you would need to check VERY closely who you are having children with.
That 21 year old you are putting a bun in the oven might be your granddaughter.
That would be immoral,even on a highlander scale.
“Oh, you must be thinking of my grandfather, we have the same birthday”
And the same social security number. It’s a weird genetic thing ;-)
The oldest person on record died at 122, and there’s reason to think that there was fraud involved and she wasn’t actually that old. By the time you were in your hundred-and-teens, you would have attention from scientists even if you looked your age. They wouldn’t be forcing you to undergo medical testing if you didn’t want to, but I think they would resort to force sometime in your hundred-and-twenties. If you didn’t look your age, you’d have attention much sooner than that but people would think you stole someone’s identity (that’s what they think the 122-year-old person might have done) and not that you were immortal.
FWIW, scientists who study supercentarians think Jeanne Calment was legit. She answered some extremely detailed historical questions about her village. She was either a walking Wikipedia about the area she grew up, or her claims were real.
That said, most supercentarian claims probably are bogus. They often come from areas that had bad recordkeeping a century ago, had their records offices bombed out during a war, or are generally well known for pension fraud. They’re often very poor areas that tend to have a low life expectancy, and it’s very strange that a real supercentarian would pop up there.
When does supercentarian hit? 100 or 110? Most of my ancestors (grandparents and older, my parents are in their 80s and still kicking) lived to be over 100, Great Aunt Mary made it to 111 or 112. Only one so far that died early was my mom’s dad, and he made it to 92.
Btw there’s a movie about that: The Age of Adaline.
I can recommend the movie “the man from earth” on the topic. I think he switches identities every 20 years or so…
Plus, Wilford Brimley
There’s a movie about this:
The Man From Earth
The circumstances where you’d be most likely to run into issues is where age plays an active role—e.g., Social Security or insurance. But those are probably avoidable if you’re careful. Otherwise, there’s no law against being really old or looking young, if you’re not trying to claim age benefits—for anyone else where the date of birth wasn’t relevant to their job, they’d probably just ignore it or assume it was a typo.
You won’t be taken away for “study”, you’ll be taken away for pension fraud. Probably much earlier than 150.
Why would participating in studies be bad, though? Major pharmaceutical companies would pay you an absolute fortune in exchange for participation and you could advance medical science tremendously. You’d be a hero and get incredibly rich in the process.
I think you’re overestimating how generous a government or research group would be if they found someone they truly believed to be immortal.
If you’re immortal in the sense that you don’t age it would be dangerous to be outted. 8 billion jealous mortals would be an issue for you.
Why would an immortal decide to take a pension?
Everybody wants money, that’s why they call it “money.”
Thats an interesting one if u happen to have happened upon a path to immortality lmk with that power i can help you rule the world. Forever.
Why would you want to rule the world? That hasn’t gone well for anyone that has attempted it, and just because you don’t age doesn’t mean you are bulletproof or explosives proof.
That’s why you play the puppeteer
Damn, it’s dick Cheney back as @itsralC@lemm.ee
I believe that most states require you to retake an ID photo every so often, same goes for passports. You could age relatively normally and still retain ID as long as you renew when it expires and update photos as required.
And it’s not entirely out of the question that even with the same real birthdate, such a legitimate ID of an immortal could be overlooked.
Why keep the same identity instead of assuming a new one every60 years?
Isn’t that just a different way of answering the question though? Do you think 60 years is the answer but don’t want to say that?
60 years is within the reasonable lifespan of a human whereas 150 is not.
