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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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[–] Nemo 99 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

what happens when the child is immortal too?

[–] classic@fedia.io 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t think that worked out so well for the titans,

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

ONCE AND FOR ALL

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Child didn't have to survive birth. I think that is what happens in highlander, he finds dead children's names and takes them.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It's like a ponzi scheme. You take their identity and now they have to start the process themselves

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like you’ve given this some thought.

[–] Nemo 6 points 1 month ago

Some of us really liked Highlander

[–] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That sounds exactly like something an immortal Highlander would say

[–] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 9 points 1 month ago

Or remodel your face

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

So, what I would likely do, is go to a country with somewhat easy-to-bribe officials, get a new identity made there; Then get a degree as an OBGYN and slip false names into their system.

you can then re immigrate to wherever, get a somewhat corrupt doctor to keep the "family" running so you get new identities that don't involve taking over actual people's identities.

depending on how careful you want to get, you'd have to then generate fake histories with residences, and eventually careers, but given the ability to compound inordinate wealth; it wouldn't be too hard.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] lando55@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

What if this is the only reason people commit identity theft? There could be millions of immortals out there, just trying to get by.