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Oct. 8, 2011 9:37 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork

Shamelessly stolen from another forum.

I think Merlin had the right idea, I want to live my next life backwards.

You start out dead and get that out of the way right off the bat.

Then, you wake up in a nursing home feeling better every day.

When you are kicked out of the home for being too healthy, you spend several years enjoying your retirement and collecting benefit checks.

When you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work 40 years or so, getting younger every day until pretty soon you're too young to work.

So then, you go to high school: play sports, date, drink, and party.

As you get even younger, you become a kid again.

You go to elementary school, play, and have no responsibilities.

In a few years, you become a baby and everyone runs themselves ragged keeping you happy.

You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury.

Until finally...You finish off as an orgasm.

I rest my case.
Oct. 9, 2011 12:14 a.m. Donebrokeit Reader

+1
Oct. 9, 2011 5:59 a.m. integraguy SuperDork

This is actually one of the plot lines of a Philip K. Dick book (writer of the books that inspired Total Recall, Blade Runner, and others). Only in his book, folks had to go out into graveyards and dig up folks who had died. Oh, wait, I am leaving out the part of the plot where time momentarily stopped for the whole world...then reversed.
Oct. 9, 2011 3:56 p.m. Keith SuperDork

I've seen this in a book somewhere. I can't remember which one at the moment. Not as a fundamental plot, but as a throwaway line kinda like a forum post.
Oct. 9, 2011 5:19 p.m. 92CelicaHalfTrac SuperDork

Benjamin Button?
Oct. 9, 2011 5:54 p.m. jamscal Dork

Yes,

Originally a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Oct. 9, 2011 6:50 p.m. corytate HalfDork

but then you run into the tense problems that Merlyn ran into all the time as well.. lol
"in a very short time I will go to an island where I will fall in love with a lovely young lady named Nimue. She will then learn my spells and trap me in time for several centuries"
lol
Oct. 9, 2011 6:59 p.m. porksboy SuperDork

Just remember you will be right here no matter where you start. If you die at 90, you will still be 38 right now.
Oct. 9, 2011 9:39 p.m. dlmater New Reader

Youth is wasted on the young who cannot appreciate its intrinsic benefits.
Oct. 10, 2011 5:52 a.m. bravenrace SuperDork

Except that you don't become a kid "again". Just saying.
Oct. 10, 2011 12:21 p.m. Ian F SuperDork

It was the rough plot line for a sci-fi episode as well. Star Trek or Star Gate - I don't recall which one.