Poll: immortality of age or of injury?

[Dfskelleton]

I'd rather be immune to injury than to time. I want to die when I'm supposed to die, but being unable to be hurt (and unable to feel pain)would be awesome. I would get a cheap car park it on a high roof, cover it in gasoline, set it on fire and then drive off the building, then get out of the car unhurt. It would be so awesome.

 

[XHolySmokesX]

tough descision, but i went with injury.

Age would be awesome as you would be able to live through the earth's future and witness new technologies, the discovery of the first extra-terrestrial life, and you could work on things that would normally require a series of lifetimes to do.

However, imunity to injury would be great. if you never could get hurt you could stand up to anyone without fear that you would get beat, and i'm talking big groups of people like the talliban, and fox news... You could literally become a super hero if you wanted, though i don't think id go for the costume and the famouse lifestyle, just hang around london fighting crime in the darkness. would be awesome if i learnt ninjitsu as well, i'd be a real life ninja that couldn't die, hehehe.

So i recon injury would be better, though both would be nice, but only if i could injure myself. longevity would only be descent for a few hundred or maybe thousand years =P

 

[RedDeadFred]

Age. As long as I'm careful, I'll live forever. Seeing as I don't believe in an afterlife, I want to be around to see all of the advances of man kind.
And hey, if shit gets just too depressing, I'm not immortal to injury.

 

[Liudeius]

The human mind simply cannot cope with immortality.

There is absolutely no scientific information to back this statement up. Problems with immortality are all fictional.

That would be like saying "looping the pulse matrix plasma coils with a re-depolarization will cause an influx of sub-space energy and materialize a perfectly cooked hamburger" is fact just because it has shown up in fiction.
(and yes it has shown up in fiction. That sentence was a short story written by me right here and now ©present-4000.)

 

[RedDeadFred]

Injury. I'm surprised how even this vote is, has every immortality movie taught you nothing? The immortal always goes insane and/or to an inch of his life. Injury means you could never be hurt, which is a pretty good way to be a superhero.
Or sit on your arse all day without the risk of scraping your knee. Either way is cool.

They're just movies thought up by a few people. The movies wouldn't be interesting for the viewers if the character just lived a happy life forever. It would be great for the movie character but the audience would be demanding their money back.

 

[loc978]

At this point in my life, chronic injuries are pretty much the biggest pain in my ass, so I'd have to go with injury... though if I got to start over in a privileged enough life that I could avoid injuries, I'd go with age.

 

[Kais86]

Immortality means you can't be killed, it doesn't mean whatever you think it means. Outright immunity to damage would be the more entertaining, plus all aging is actually just damage on a cellular level, ergo I would live forever, and I would be invincible. Besides, what good is it to be 50 billion years old and unable to walk because 15 billion years ago you broke your spine while fighting dinosaurs on the planet zog.

 

[goldendriger]

I was going to say "Injury" but with Age i lose the injury immunity so if i get tired of living i can just jump off a bridge. So i guess im with age

 

[Jegsimmons]

injury includes illness?

well injury, because with out illness you wouldn't be able to die even from old age like heart failure. maby im over thinking it.

 

[spartan231490]

Injury all the way. Immunity to age is more curse than gift. Everyone you love gets old and dies, you live on. Injury on the other hand, you could do like anything. You could join your countries military and win a war pretty much single handedly.

 

[Queen Michael]

Injury. It's way harder to avoid.

 

[Vykrel]

id probably go with immortality to injury. a lot of people think they would like to live forever, and im sure it would be nice in that you would get to see EVERYTHING. but heres some things that come with immortality to age that people sometimes dont really think about:

1. you will have to see everyone you know die around you. your friends, family, even your kids if you were to have any, and their kids, and so on. that would be terrible.

2. you can still die by injury. something tells me itd be difficult to make it through even 500 years without sustaining a fatal injury. and i guarantee that one would suffer a multitude of non-fatal injuries throughout their ever-lasting life. so instead of choosing to live an incredible, injury-free life of average length, you would be choosing to live a life without aging, with the same risk that you could be hit by a car or something and just die... that kinda sucks :/

if you were immortal to injury, you could jump out of planes without parachutes, fight WHOEVER you want, and a whole bunch of other fun shit lol

 

[Oly J]

injury for me, I would not want to live too long and watch everyone I care about drop like flies, besides which immunity from injury and disease pretty much garentees a long life anyway, you can'tget sick or physically hurt or killed, wait, I think I voted for the wrong one, upon typing this right now I realised I'd rather go with age, then you could still be killed, so you'd get to choose when you wanted to die

 

[Zaverexus]

Step One: Acquire Immortality to Aging
Step Two: Ignore insanity arguments
Step Three: Become, effectively, The Doctor (or whatever super-wise awesome unaging man of justice [seriously, if you know any others I'm forgetting, I would like to know])
Step Four: Probably die forgetting that you simply do not age and can still be killed, crap.

 

[Yoshemo]

Immune to aging. I can live as long as I like, and when I get bored, I can jump into a lava pool

 

[Jedoro]

Age

Injuries heal unless they're crippling, but we ain't getting any prettier after long enough.

 

[Bran1470]

injury because then i could enjoy a full life care free instead of seeing everything and everyone i love die over and over until i become a bitter shell of a man

 

[Rory Beck]

I see it more as, with age, I won't get old, but could still get sick or die of all sorts of things. Which to me is pretty awesome, since I have no desire to get old or live forever. But being able to continually do crazy, dangerous things without getting old? That would be pretty sweet.

I also feel like I would get really depressed if I couldn't get hurt...that whole thing about "without the threat of death, there's no reason to live." Where's the fun if it can't kill you?

 

[internetzealot1]

Age. I don't plan on dying from injury.