Would you rather keep reliving your life or live forever?

I was asked this question and I was wondering if this would be an interesting topic for the forums. So here is the gist of the question. Would you rather keep reliving your life, as in living through your life now and when you die you are born again and can live through that time again while retaining all the knowledge you possessed, or live forever but you would still have to age, so it would be like the previous conditions where when you die you are reborn yet this time you are born at the time you die. The only restrictions are that you wouldn't be able to get the knowledge you had from your previous mind until you were say 16 or 18. Personally I would choose living forever because even though I could relive my life and not make the same mistakes twice I would have to constantly see my family members die over and over again.

...wait, what?

Seems like the memories only carrying over once your 16-18 kind of devalues the whole thing seeing it's the years before then that all the prior knowledge would be useful. 
Immortality seems like the best option all round.

I would love to live forever just to see how akward everything would be after the first thousand years. 
 
Hi, I'm new here my name is ... Eric. 
 "That's a weird name, like from the 2000's or something? How old are you?" 
I have to go.

Relive my life. I got a lot of things to fix. 

I want a New Game Plus for life.

This is the type of thing a serial killer would write in their journal.

Neither, but if I had to choose:  Relive my life.  Although I would like that knowledge around 6 years old instead of 16...

Reliving my life over and over. The first life I'll know what happens, the second I'll change things to make them "better" with the knowledge I knew from the first life, and subsequent times I'll just relive it & make stupid decisions and see how it'll affect the future.

I almost died trying to read that.

Seeing your family die over and over again would be bad, but at the same time, you know that they will be back. 
 
My dad died unexpectedly three and a half years ago, and I would, without a doubt, choose to relive the same life over and over again so that I would get to see him again. You also have to consider that even if you live forever, the rest of the species will not.  And as we learned from Highlander, every mortal you love will die, which sucks. Humanity will eventually be wiped out by something: super-plague, meteor impact, nuclear war, etc.

Live forever.  Then I will be able to attempt a Science Victory in real life.

Both of those choices kind of suck. I mean, suddenly having all this information pop into your head could totally destroy your psyche. Or you could end up as the oldest and crazies person to ever exist, due to the fact that your brain would start to deteriorate over time. Your memory and learning skills just wouldn't be what they use to. I guess that if I had to pick one I would going with being reborn and carrying information over. Although, I would much prefer my death to be more like a Timelord and just have me regenerate. I've always wanted to be ginger. Just once. Just one time.

Both.

" I've always wanted to be ginger. Just once. Just one time. "

" I was asked this question and I was wondering if this would be an interesting topic for the forums. So here is the gist of the question. Would you rather keep reliving your life, as in living through your life now and when you die you are born again and can live through that time again while retaining all the knowledge you possessed, or live forever but you would still have to age, so it would be like the previous conditions where when you die you are reborn yet this time you are born at the time you die. The only restrictions are that you wouldn't be able to get the knowledge you had from your previous mind until you were say 16 or 18. Personally I would choose living forever because even though I could relive my life and not make the same mistakes twice I would have to constantly see my family members die over and over again. "

" I almost died trying to read that. "

I thought these choices were both horrible, until i read what you actually said. 
 
If i can have those memories and every time is different, sure. I'll go with that any day. 
 
Only difference i'd make is, give back the memories kinda slowly over time. So you get stuff before they happen, not just everything suddenly hitting you all at once. I can imagine what would happen. Total freak out moment.

Both options are appealing, but I totally regret that I won't be able to see what the future is like, where humanity will be 100, 1000, 10,000 years from now, whether or not Seattle sports will get a championship again, and how it will all end. So that for sure. 

Both are tragic. I choose neither.

Is a swift, peaceful death in the next 10-15 years an option?

I couldn't bare either of those. The endlessness would be awful. This sounds incredibly emo, but in a lot of ways it's almost comforting knowing that an end is coming.

Would I want to be Sisyphus? No, live forever no.

Living forever if I do not deteriorate from my current state of age. 
 
I do not want to be a elder for the rest of my life. 
 
Reliving your life would be cool to experience death and see how it feels though.

live for ever and be done with it

" Relive my life. I got a lot of things to fix.  "

Live forever I guess.

Best part of life is learning and having new experiences, if you lived forever i think life would become really dull. Think about the thrills you got by going on your first date, going to see your first concert, going on your first road trip with out your parents. I would never want to be reborn knowing everything i know now. Also like i think some else said it the beauty of life is it does end, if it didn't it wouldn't be a  precious thing. 

" I want a New Game Plus for life. "

Live forever. I have nothing in this life that I care about or would miss, while the absolute magic of getting to see what becomes of earth and humans is fascinating.

Great question.   I would rather relive my life so I can right all the wrongs I have done.  But seeing my family die all over again is horrid!  Could I warn people that I lost not to do what they were doing as it would change history??

I'd rather have another shot trying to make a better go of the one I have.

I've had this conversation with quite a few friends lately.  I'm 23 now, full time job, responsibilities, bills to pay, etc.
 
The overall consensus among my friends and I were that we wish we could go back to grade school with the things we know now.  Back then was a blast.  No job, no responsibility besides going to school.  Those were the days.  I remember going to school and then racing home to keep playing Resident Evil or Final Fantasy VII.

live forever. Just cause then i could watch everyone die.

Re-living.  My parents in their 20s and 30s again > Iphone100 and World war 5.

Living forever.  Man, having to deal with school all over again would be a fucking pain as well as a whole lot of other stuff which would prove to be immensely boring, especially when I got my previous memory back.

Relive my life. As everyone else has said, I would like to right my wrongs and whatnot. But also because the future looks like shit. Environmental problems, diminishing resources, over population. I'm going to have to live through the beginning of that as it is. I don't want to live through ALL of it. 
 
Not to mention I can make an ass load of money every time with sports betting. :P

I would probably live forever. 
 
@Claude said:

" I almost died trying to read that. "

This article is the reason I would choose reliving my life over immortality.

Live Forever.

Considering I made most of my mistakes before I was 16-18 not having the knowledge of those would make it pointless to re-live my life. I'll take immortality!

Live forever. I want to be a gamer in the 22nd century.

" relive my life! I got a lot of things to fix "

Is that you, Nietzsche?

Watch "man from earth" great movie about living for a loooong time