IF you had three wishes

[evensgrey]

Guys, I've seen Torchwood: if you're going to wish for immortality, make sure you wish for eternal youth and health as well as invincibility. Just sayin'.

I think the Ancient Greeks had pretty much all the problems with immortality without the right secondary abilities down pretty well, and they probably just copied from older sources.  Once somebody comes up with the idea of living forever, somebody is bound to start trying to figure out how the downside works.

Really, you don't want to be unable to die, you want to be hard to kill, unaging, and immune to disease.  We'll probably have all of that within another century, if it can be done at all.

[ArtemisVale]

Guys, I've seen Torchwood: if you're going to wish for immortality, make sure you wish for eternal youth and health as well as invincibility. Just sayin'.

Well if theres no room left for my MLP wishes then im not even going to bother then :T

[AnCap Dave]

Guys, I've seen Torchwood: if you're going to wish for immortality, make sure you wish for eternal youth and health as well as invincibility. Just sayin'.

But who is to say that Torchwood's version of immortality is what would actually happen?

In fiction there are several different types of immortality and any of them can apply when it comes to a hypothetical like wish making.

1: Longevity
Longevity is the power to live a long time, people gifted with this type of immortality cannot die from natural causes, old age, illnesses etc, but can be killed by unnatural causes.

2: Immortality without regeneration
This type of immortality is not useful for combat. Essentially bodily harm cannot kill you but your original form can be mutilated. An immortal of this category can be maimed and rendered useless in battle. If the character in question has high durability then this type of immortality can be more useful.

3: Immortality via regeneration
You can maim the person, kill him etc and he's still come back. This type of immortality hinges on how well the character can regenerate. Most high tier regeneration grants immortality.

4: Immortality via Godhood or protection from a deity
This kind of immortality is granted by a God or is given by virtue of Godhood. Only a God of higher status can override it.

5: Perfect Immortality
Complete and utter inability to ever die. This is typically reserved for omnipotents and cosmic characters who are strong enough that dying isn't exactly high on their list of worries, even if they were capable of it.

6: Parasitic
The person attains a sort of immortality by bodyhopping, transferring their soul to another body.

7: Undead
Self explanatory. The undead generally double up with other types of immortality. Zombies may possess similar resistances to the "Immortality Only" category. Ghosts occasionally double up with "Perfect Immortality" as they can not usually be killed again.

[ArtemisVale]

I think id change my fisrt wish from "immortality" to having powers like superman.