This form of immortality displeases me. I'd rather not turn back into a fetus for the sake of immortality.
He keeps a journal. It's a timestamped log of him saying that he's "finally awake" over and over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing
In addition to robbing you of your past, amnesia makes the future unknowable. Amnesia traps you perpetually in the present with no way of improving it.
Such is the case for the leaders in the Æon Flux movie.