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Emile Ratelband, 69, won world news last month by starting a lawsuit in early November to formally reduce his age to 49. As expected, a Dutch court dismissed self-proclaimed "positivity guru"
Ratelband's idea of shortening his birth certificate by 20 years was simple: avoid prejudices against the elderly. As he revealed last month to The Guardian he feels two decades younger than him and he is able to say that it would bring benefits.
"At 69, I am limited," he said. "If I'm 49 years old, I can buy a new house, drive a different car.I can have more work.When I'm in Tinder and I say I'm 69, I'm not sure. I have no answer.When [digo que] at 49 years old, with the face that I have, I will be in a privileged position. "
Changing Ratelband's age would generate a series of 39 undesirable legal and social implications, says Dutch justice [196459002]. However, the appeal did not move the judges and their age will follow the natural course. And the Dutch court does not even care that it feels younger than it does, relying solely on the problem of "20 years of missing documents" as a reason not to respond to the request.
"Mr. Ratelband is free to feel 20. younger than him and act accordingly," said the court in a statement. "However, if you change your date of birth, 20 years of registration will disappear from registered birth, death, marriage and partnership registers, which would have a number of undesirable social and legal consequences," the court concluded.
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