Bibliography

Hm, guess it is worth saying where the somewhat random references in the last post are from. Spoiler alert in number 4.

1. Highlander - when an immortal beheaded another he got the other's power, unless they are on sacred ground in which case the powers just go away. I'm not actually sure what happens if a non-immortal beheads an immortal, but seems like they should become immortal.

2. Most any vampire story (Buffy, Angel, Blade, Dracula...) - I think this one is fairly well known.

3. Greek myth I vaguely remember from 8th grade English class - Guy asks a greek god for immortality (instead of eternal youth) and gets it, but gets older and older till he shrivels up to the point of being a cricket (this is what I remember from 8th grade so some or all of the details could be wrong).

4. Dune - specifically end of book 3, beginning of book 4. Some authors skip a few years in telling a story, Frank Herbert skips 10,000 years. The father of the guy who lives 10,000 years can see the future so clearly that he loses his freewill.

I'm actually surprised I can't think of any other becoming immortal stories. I was thinking Bender (Robot from Futurama) since he often goes back in time and then waits to catch up with the present a number of times, but that only sort of counts. Fry (also from Futurama) sort of does the same thing, but spends his 1000 year spans frozen so that definitely doesn't count.