I got a chuckle out of this definition in today's New York Times Style Magazine
"Youthanasia / (yooth en azhe) / n. / a neologism for the controversial practice of performing a battery of age-defying medical procedures to end lifeless skin and wrinkles; advocated by some as a last-resort measure to put the chronically youth-obsessed out of their misery: “My doctor was on the fence about youthanasia, but I whined so much that he finally agreed to perform my abdominoplasty, mammoplasty and rhytidectomy, all at once.” Think of it as mercy lifting"
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That newspaper is waiting for me in my kitchen. I didn't read that or ours this morning. I love that definition!
Me too Kenju. I almost tossed the supplement Style Magizine. Glad I did scan it since I found several gems there. One was a short article on the "Anti-Aging" craze:
"But to be “anti-aging” seems about as logical as being “anti-Tuesday” or “anti-weather.” Like them or not, Tuesdays and rain will come. As will skin aging, even though a number of face creams position themselves as time machines, promising to stop the biological clock, rewind the hours of sun exposure or even, as one recent ad campaign put it, “get 10 years back.”
Actually I don'tmind aging...I just don't want to look sad or tired or whatever. I want to look the way I feel, and I don't!!
I read somewhere recently that as long as we feel unhappy about aging.. we will be always unhappy as we are always aging. It kind of stuck with me. :-)
I think this "anti-aging" business is just that -- business. It's all about making money and promising perky bosoms and wrinkle-free necks keeps cash flowing.
Yeah, that's good for a chuckle from me, too.
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