What sort of immortality would you want?

[Lord of the Abyss]

Reincarnation any day.A fresh new slate,none of the hangups and eventually if I meditate enough and become enlightened,I can escape the cycle of reincarnation and achieve nirvana

Reincarnation always struck me as fairly pointless. If "I" am reborn without the memories of my previous life, then as far as I'm concerned the reborn person isn't really me in the first place. It's about as much "immortality" as arranging to have yourself eaten by a tiger and claiming you'll live on in the tiger because some of your mass will end up part of it. In both cases, what makes you you is gone.

[Metahive]

I think I'd first have to ask why humans should be immortal in the first place, what kind of purpose ought to be fulfilled that way, before picking any specific form of it. Is there any special reason other than "for its own sake"?

[SCRawl]

I think I'd first have to ask why humans should be immortal in the first place, what kind of purpose ought to be fulfilled that way, before picking any specific form of it. Is there any special reason other than "for its own sake"?

To answer your question, I will echo Woody Allen, who said: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."

[Metahive]

So it's because dying's, like, a real bummer, dude? Well then pick that elven sort of immortality where you simpy stop aging after puberty.