Because you can die. As in, cease to live. As in, become an ex-person. That's it, fini, hope you had a good run, too bad that elective surgery didn't work out, have a nice afterlife, see ya!
I firmly believe in plastic surgery as an important means to give the disfigured back their lives, but I also think that sometimes we forget that this is SURGERY, and that the human body isn't really designed to be flayed, punctured, deflated, lifted and tucked as a matter of course.
'Cause, you know, that whole DYING thing is sort of a bummer. I don't care if death by plastic surgery is statistically insignifigant, the fact is you can avoid it by NOT HAVING VANITY WORK DONE.
Of course, we're free to choose. But me, my golden years will be spent heading to Victoria's Secret for girdles and push-up bras and then to the drugstore for nightcream. Unless I skew the statistics by getting hit by a bus on the way, the mortality rate for Cetaphil use currently stands at zero.
Posted by Big Arm Woman at January 16, 2004 11:19 AMThat's a very sad story.
I've wondered what I will look like in a decade or two (I'm 43 now) and I also have decided that I'll just have to make the best of whatever I've got. I've never been a raving beauty anyway.
Posted by: Laura at January 16, 2004 12:31 PMI saw a liposuction on Discovery Channel. No freakin way.
Posted by: Wookiee at January 16, 2004 05:00 PMNietzsche was against old women. It's not a matter of appearance however, except in its effect on the women:
``I fear that women who have grown old are more sceptical in the secret recesses of their
hearts than any of the men; they believe in the superficiality of existence
as in its essence, and all virtue and profoundity is to them only the disguising
of this ``truth,' the very disireable disguising of a pudendum - an affair,
therefore, of decency and modesty, and nothing more!''
Men grow less skeptical with age, women more skeptical.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at January 17, 2004 01:34 PMOFF TOPIC
Speaking of Victoria, did you spot the Secrets catalog in the picture of Santa on the back of Reader's Digest? Have to admit I missed it.