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Vampiric immortality is characterized by being conditional, inasmuch as continued access to human blood is necessary to sustain it. [4] [17] Zombie immortality, on the other hand, is characterized by the loss of personhood. [16] [18] Works of fiction featuring immortality can be classified by the number of immortals: one, several, or everyone.
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Immortality in fiction List of Highlander characters See also the categories Middle-earth Elves , Fictional vampires , and Immortal characters in video games
Fictional characters who possess any form of immortality.Note that many if not most immortal characters listed here are not completely immune to death; at minimum they must at least be capable of living indefinitely and never dying from old age or natural causes.
Anna Milon writes that Tolkien introduces two concepts in one of his letters, "serial longevity" and "hoarding memory" as "escapes" from both death and immortality. [T 19] In her view, this means that immortality, normally defined as "exemption from death", is not death's opposite, as both can be "escape[d]". She comments that the two concepts ...
Markandeya, a sage who was granted the boon of immortality at the age of sixteen by the Hindu deity Shiva after he was saved from the noose of the god of death, Yama. [9] Sir Galahad (born 2nd-6th century), one of the three Arthurian knights to find the Holy Grail. Of these questing knights, Galahad is the only one to have achieved immortality ...
1540 AD — Hanno leaves a box containing a physical description of himself in a church, with instructions not to open it for a hundred years, to prove his immortality. 1570 AD — Tu Shan and Asagao meet in Tibet, marry and have a child who dies shortly after being born. Two years later they leave the Tibetan village and journey out into the ...
Eternal youth is the concept of human physical immortality free of ageing. The youth referred to is usually meant to be in contrast to the depredations of aging, rather than a specific age of the human lifespan. Eternal youth is common in mythology, and is a popular theme in fiction.