I'm only pro-surgery for serious medical purposes. So I'm totally against changing your face or body just to look nicer or younger. Why do you want to look like you have 10 years less when you are going to die at the same age. It's no use to skip to a previous generation. And I must say that these surgery is easily recognizable. You may know who have done it if you look carefully... in some cases are more evident.

I also think it's like a drug. First you only want to get rid of something that makes you feel ugly. But then, you like the results and you feel the urge to "improve" yourself to be the perfect man or woman. And imagine if we all did plastic surgery, having the same icons, actors, actresses, top-models, etc, we would all look the same. It would be boring, alienating and terrible.

Hi,

I totally agree with you Sprknwn as it does become an obsession after sometime to keep changing and then you end up looking really Plastic. Is this like a sign that we are getting a bit too superficial as technology goes on reaching a higher level? In many ways I think it is that we are going superficial in some ways in need of proving ourselves.

Yeah, you know, everyone's saying they're against any kind of surgery except if it's to fix like a disfigurement or something, and I wonder how many of us will think that when we're fifty and wanting to be twenty again, but at least for now I would never agree with anything like botox or plastic surgery unless it's absolutely necessary to correct some sort of major disfigurement. You can do plenty of stuff to make yourself look better without having to pay for expensive treatments or surgery.

I am against all plastic surgery just because you don't think that you look good. I am also against
a whole lot of makeup. You also have to think that you would have a chance of getting infected
during recovery. Increasing your chances of getting sick shouldn't be worth it to look a little younger
for a short time.

People don't remember other people for looks as much as they remember them for their actions.
If you are nice, kind, and ugly, people will still love you. If you are mean, selfish, and pretty,
nobody will like you.

If you eat right, exercise, and don't drink too much alcohol, you should age pretty gracefully. Even if you
don't, most nice people only care if you're nice too.

I suppose I'm just against the whole 'external appearances' attitude. Well, I suppose one should be clean, well-groomed etc. up to a point, but I think there are limits to how far one should go to look good externally. I think it's your mind, your thoughts, your attitude and your personality that should count - both with you and with others.

Plastic surgery for people seriously burned, disfigured, etc. I can understand. But cosmetic surgery, I'm wary of that. I have friends who don't necessarily look 'optimal' but that doesn't affect my attitude to them - they're wonderful people to be around, and I like them, and that's what matters, not what they look like.


As for age, everyone ages, it's nothing to fear, and there's nothing bad about it. I once read an interesting article that said that as you age, your character is written on your face, the lines tell the story of your life, of your good times and bad, of happiness and sorrow, of love and sunshine and joy and pain.

And I think that that character makes old people beautiful. How sad to wipe the slate clean just to look young again.

Besides, no matter what you look like outside, I think that how young you are is really decided in your mind and heart, in your attitude to life. There are those who are young at heart at eighty, and there are those who are old and conservative at twenty-five.

Can age be a state of mind after all??

No. Does anyone know though if they get the blood for cosmetic surgery from organizations like the Red Cross (whichever place provides the blood for life-saving surgeries in your country)? I heard they do, and it just doesn't make any sense to me ("oh, sorry, we can't save you because this woman getting breast implants used the last of the hospital's o-negative blood yesterday..."). They might be separate though, I'm not sure, IMO anyone getting cosmetic surgery should have to provide their own blood.

My answer is no I would never do any plastic surgery unless it is really neccessery like after some accident or something similar. Also I think that people should be satisfied with their bodies and should go to plastic surgery to satisfy someone else. That is the main problem in my oppinion.

Also I have never considered that they use blood in plastic surgeries and I would really like to know where does this blood come from as this is really interesting topic because all those people who are giving blood are giving blood to save someones life and not to waste it for someones smaller nose or larger breasts.

Hello,

I guess no one here would want to do surgery for beauty yet a lot of people are opting for that and it is said to be a worrying issue among teenagers. Are people really ready to pay a price just to look prettier for a few more years.

Ironically the materials used are dangerous example: Botox is a kind of venom I think and sillicon is used in implants that can cause a problem if it tore or something.

i'm totally fine with plastic surgery, as long as i can pay for it. but i think it should only be done in moderation, meaning it shouldn't become an obsession brought by stress of wanting to look good. and like what one of the members said, plastic surgery would be good to those who have physical deformities that they want to have fixed.

personally if fixing my nose would allow me to breathe better, i'll have it fixed. i'm not that comfortable wit