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Olumba claimed to be the Abrahamic God [12] in human form. Members of his religion claim he is immortal. [13] Khidr. In Islamic mythology "Al-Khidr" or "The Green" is a guide and servant for other prophets. He is considered an immortal human who, depending on the versions, is normally a human servant or prophet of God.
The later historian Diogenes Laërtius claimed that Empedocles committed suicide by jumping into Mount Etna in order to persuade people that he was an immortal god, [64] a legend which is also alluded to by the Roman poet Horace. [65] Pharnavaz I of Iberia: 326–234 BCE Iberian king (r. 299–234 BCE) Antiochus IV Epiphanes: 215–164 BCE
Also known as The One Who Overcomes, he claims to be chosen by Jesus to be the next immortal savior of the world [39] Jung Myung-seok (born 1945), a South Korean who was a member of the Unification Church in the 1970s, before breaking off to found the dissenting group [40] now known as Providence Church in 1980.
The term is a combination of chiram, or 'permanent', and jīvi, or 'lived'.It is similar to amaratva, which refers to true immortality.At the end of the last manvantara (age of Manu), an asura named Hayagriva attempted to become immortal by swallowing the sacred pages of the Vedas, as they escaped from the mouth of Brahma.
Whereas Li Ching-Yuen himself claimed to have been born in 1736, Wu Chung-Chieh, a professor of the Chengdu University, asserted that Li was born in 1677: according to a 1930 New York Times article, Wu discovered Imperial Chinese government records from 1827 congratulating Li on his 150th birthday, and further documents later congratulating him ...
The ancient elite of China were not the only ones who were trying to find a way to be immortal. We all want to live forever—or at least stave off natural deterioration for as long as possible.
Angela Hunt's novel The Immortal (2000) features the Wandering Jew under the name of Asher Genzano. Although he does not appear in Robert A. Heinlein 's novel Time Enough for Love (1973), the central character, Lazarus Long , claims to have encountered the Wandering Jew at least once, possibly multiple times, over the course of his long life.
a better title might be "people who are claimed to be immortal" -- some poeple who are popularly thought to be immortal probably didn't claim it of themselves, but rather it was claimed about them. there is always a despute of whether Jesus claimed this or claimed that for example.