Eternal Reincarnation vs Immortality

Eternal Reincarnation
The ability to reincarnate forever. Your soul will never die.

Pros:
-Go through life many times.
-Live life differently every time.
-Live forever through different people.

Cons:
-Will die as many times as being born.
-Memories of past lives wither away over time.
-Cannot recall past life memories at an instant, no matter how recent.

Immortality
The ability to live forever. Your soul and body will never die.

Pros:
-Watch the world change.
-Gain knowledge of many things.
-Live forever.

Cons:
-Watch as the world withers away with everyone around you.
-Life can be seen as meaningless.
-Memories and, possibly, emotions wither away over time.



Discuss.

 

I would choose immortality for the mere fact of all the knowledge I would gain. Going through multiple lives and not being able to remember most of them just seems like a waste.

 

Immortality all the way. I mean sure after a millenium of searching for knowledge I'd get bored and spend a decade trying to kill myself, but once I get sane again it'd be a blast. Plus for all I know, we all could just be reincarnating everytime a new baby is born. The only problem I could see would be people thinking the gift is more satanic then godsent and I'd get labelled as some kind of demon. And living forever with a body ravaged by attacks against me would be annoying.

 

Eternal Reincarnation.

I would get so bored living forever in the same enviroment with things probably repeating themselves as the stupid mistakes of humanity keep happening over and over and over and ugh. -_-​

 

Eternal Reincarnation for sure! I would get so bored of life if I was immortal, cause I'll have to put up the repeats in history, over, and over, and oooover again. Plus, it's a new taste in adventure, cause you don't know what happened in your other life. Life continues to surprise you, because you don't know what's around the corner

 

Eternal Reincarnation, cause being Immortal would suck.

 

Eternal reincarnation. I think being many different would be better than be the same person for eternity.

 

I like who I am so I would have to go with immortality. It would be interesting to see the world change and gain so much knowledge, but I would only want to become immortal if I were to retain my youth. Who would want to be old forever?

 

Reasons for NOT wanting to be immortal (with various anime/games examples): http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhoWantsToLiveForever

Eternal life for me would be the worst damnation possible, both as an immortal AND as a reborning soul. I'm just so sick of living, sick of suffering, sick of having to deal with all the stupidity that exists in this world. Once I die, I want to simply disappear, fade away, sleep forever, you name it. And if you are one of those that say that "God is merciful", then you can't disagree that "He" WILL fulfill that wish, otherwise "He" is not merciful at all.