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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.
Immortality in fiction List of Highlander characters See also the categories Middle-earth Elves , Fictional vampires , and Immortal characters in video games
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 ...
Physical immortality has also been imagined as a form of eternal torment, as in the myth of Tithonus, or in Mary Shelley's short story The Mortal Immortal, where the protagonist lives to witness everyone he cares about die around him. For additional examples in fiction, see Immortality in fiction.
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 ...
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Immortality, Inc. is a 1959 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Sheckley, originally published in a shorter form in 1958 as Immortality Delivered.It was Sheckley's debut and remains one of his most popular and critically acclaimed.