I think it's ironic that if beauty is considered one's worth (from the worldly perspective, not God's perspective), then in many ways it's better to die while you're young and still beautiful, because people don't take kindly to those who lose their beauty, and the loss is almost inevitable.
Marilyn Monroe and James Dean will always be remembered as young and beautiful--would they still be revered today if they had lived out their lives and grown old? I highly doubt it. But if you take someone like Elizabeth Taylor... Not many from the current generations knew how beautiful she was in her heyday (She. Was. Stunning.) All the young people today saw was an old woman in a wheelchair who couldn't buy back her beauty with all the money in the world. It's really sad because I did admire Ms. Taylor for the charity work she was involved in (I'm not saying she's an ideal role model, I'm just saying there was more to her than being a beauty icon.)
If anyone watches the show "Almost Human", try to catch the episode entitled "Beholder". It was phenomenal.
SPOILER: do NOT read any further if you don't want to know the plot twist.
As a summary of the episode, a handsome but seemingly average man becomes obsessed with turning himself into his own vision of perfection via futuristic plastic surgery. A revolutionary method can now reproduce anyone else's features on your own face. The catch? In order to copy that feature, the original owner of the nose, eyes, lips, you want, dies. The man kills 9 people in an attempt to create his perfect face because he's fallen in love with a woman online and is about to meet her.
The catch? He eventually does meet this woman. And guess what? She's blind. (She never told him and he doesn't find out until he meets her) and doesn't care what he looks like--she loves him all the same and would have loved him no matter what he looked like. He instantly realizes that he's killed all those people for nothing.
I wonder whom we all would fall in love with if we couldn't see the face that loved us back. (I'm certainly no exception... looks are as much of a trap for me as for any of us, whether trying to change my own into a "better version" or finding myself reacting to appearances around me.)