"I am about to die," Takahisa Ide, 17, tells the camera. On his lap is a simple crayon drawing freshly made to illustrate the scene.
"It was in the future, but it didn't feel like Earth. Next to me was maybe my child or someone who was very close to me..." "Tell me about dying. How did it feel?" his interviewer asks. "It looked like I was really happy, content," Ide says, smiling. "What was the person near you doing?" "Just watching over me." "Having seen that, how do you feel now?" "It would be wonderful if it turned out this way," he says.
Ide may have been surprised to find that he could visualize his old age -- and dying contented -- so clearly, but his interviewer wasn't. Lisa Morgan designed The 17s Project, in which Ide was participating for the interview, to help young people unlock their imaginations and explore the future.