Blogpost 7: Who are the immortals?

In my previous post, I discussed about the different mythology of immortality. Now I will discuss about who became immortals in the myths. They are sometimes called immortal legends. If we can prove that this people exist, we can conclude that immortality is possible.

I found some interesting stories of those people who became immortal in the site of "Speaking Tree.in" where the slides were entitled "Mythological Ways to Become Immortal" in which I already visited this because I used this on my topic of the myths of immortality.


This person is Ashwathama. After he killed the sons of Pandavas, Krishna placed a cursed on him. The curse was"he will carry the burden of all people's sins on his shoulders and will roam alone like a ghost without getting any love and courtesy till the end of Kaliyuga. It is believed that in Kaliyuga, his name will be "Suryakanta". Ashwathama will be in the search of death every moment but he will never die.


The Wandering Jew, a Jewish shoemaker. According to the legend, he taunted Jesus on his way to crucifixion. Jesus cursed him "to go on forever till He return". The Wandering Jew will lived until the second coming of Jesus. They said that sometimes the Wandering Jew is old, sometimes he is young and later returns to being old.




John the Apostle, one of Jesus followers. Same as the Wandering Jew, John will remain on the Earth until the second coming of Jesus. It was interpreted in the Bible, John 21:21-23.





The Three Nephites. It is said that these are the three apostles of Jesus and asked Jesus to change them from human to angels in order to fulfill their desire to minister among men until Jesus comes again on Earth.



Merlin, a magician at the court of King Arthur. It is said that Merlin was trapped by an enchantment by Nimue and when Merlin is dying, he remains in the trap indefinitely. Some people believed that Merlin was still around and guarding or protects the Royal Family in England.


Leonard "Live-Forever" Jones. He wasn't immortal but he was notable for believing in immortality. He was an eccentric who ran for the election of President of the United States between the late 1840s to 1860s on a platform of immortality. He believed that mortality is for poor mortals and with the power of prayer, anyone could live forever. He died at the age of 71 of Pneumonia.

Qin Shi Huang Di, the first Emperor of China who sought immortality in his old age. He sent hundreds of people to find the legendary elixir of life twice, but failed. He died of mercury poisoning after eating too many mercury pills. His doctors prescribed him because it will make him immortal.

Joseph Stalin hired a Ukrainian Patho-physiologist to conduct research life extension. Unfortunately, the researcher died in 1946 and when Stalin found out, he fell into severe anger and complained, “The crook promised life eternal, but died at age 65. He deceived me!”

There is another article that I found called "10 Notable People Thought to be Immortal" in the site of "Listverse". Some people were already mentioned in the other article (above).


In Greek Mythology, Memnon was an Ethiopian King. He was thought to be an immortal and was only inferior to Achilles. He was killed by Achilles in retribution for killing Antilochus. The story of Memnon was one of the most intense to read.

Achilles was dipped into the River Styx when he was a baby to gain impenetrable skin against any weapons so he was nearly invincible. His only weakness was his heel and Paris poisoned it. It is believed that Achilles was shot in the heel with an arrow.

Nicolas Flamel, a scholar and scribe, devoted his life to understand the text in the mysterious book filled with encoded alchemical symbols that some believed that is the secret of the Philosopher's stone. Some said that he, himself, created the Philosopher's Stone. He remains as an important figure in the alchemist world.

Count of St. Germain, it is believed that he discovered the secret of eternal life. Some said that he doesn't age and he was born back to the time of Christ. He used to move from one place to another every moment taking with him the secrets of his personality which it seems very mysterious.

Heracles' story was one of the most famous around the world. They said that Heracles was a man who was so strong and courageous, whose deed were so mighty, and who endured all the hardships that was given to him, eventually it made him immortal. The only certain thing is that Heracles never achieved real immortality but he managed to become the most famous hero in the ancient times and the most beloved one too.


Apparently, these people aren't really immortal because if they do, where are they? If they existed maybe they just lived for a long time and considered immortal but it is clearly not immortal. Some people still believed in this things. Despite all the myths and legends commonsense tells us everything dies.