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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.

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[-] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 28 points 2 hours ago

When your id says you're 100 and you look 21 it's going to cause issues.

You want to get away from ever needing an ID. The wealth you gain from compounding interest should allow you to hire accounting experts who will handle your transactions and hide your wealth among shell companies. I think once or twice you could go with the "this is my child, me Jr" routine, but eventually you need to have some kind of emissary who conducts business on your behalf while you cycle through fraudulent ids and move around every 20-30 years.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 46 minutes ago

When your id says you're 100 and you look 21 it's going to cause issues.

You can use this to your advantage, by claiming it's some sort of annoying mixup and it happened before. You can use this to sneak new info into the system when they need your help correcting the obvious mistake that you're not 100 and get your dates reset.

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 hour ago

It'd be cruel to the people around me, but I do rather like the idea of starting over every 30 years or so, your could try out so many different paths.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 35 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 15 points 1 hour ago

As someone who isn’t an immortal Highlander, this works.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

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.

Continue having children throughout your immortality every 20 years or so. Make sure you have an child of the gender equal to your own, and on their 21st birthday, you switch identities with them. You sit for their picture on their newly issued ID on their 21st birthday, and suddenly its your picture that is the one of record for the legal 21 year old. Your child takes over you identity, grows old, and dies. Repeat ad infinitum.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 1 hour ago

Or remodel your face

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

It would be very easy. There are many places where money is all you need. Living in a shithole like the USA is the last place you want to be. Go anywhere you find Russian oligarchs or their kids. There are many micro nations that would gladly let anyone print any name they would like for a fee.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 49 minutes ago

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.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 1 points 37 minutes ago

Why would an immortal decide to take a pension?

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 32 minutes ago

Everybody wants money, that's why they call it "money."

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

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