Question on Immortality and Myths about it.

I'm writing a book about Immortality, or becoming Immortal.
I don't want to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle things that have been done
before. Problem is Wikipedia can only do so much lol.

Any know any popular myths about immortality
and different effects it had depending on the myth
or how it was obtained? Some less popular but just
as good myths and legends would be great.

This might be a lot to ask but I'll just take what i can get .
If you want to know more about the book, and wanna help
in more depth then feel free to message me.

(Is this in the right forum lol?)


(EDIT)
Well myths including objects would be nice,
or things along the line of the process
of becoming immortal, different ways of
going about it.

I mean the book is about
a boy obsessed with becoming immortal.

I've read so many different books and accounts on immortality; really, if you don't want to do reuse, recycle or in any be influenced by previously used notions, seems to me like the best thing to do would be to not know of any them.

That way anything you come up with is purely yours.

I've read books in which some people are born with the innate ability to become immortal - they just need to learn how to tab that ability. I've read books in which service to a particular god grants you longevity - high priests and the like. There are those that gain it by virtue of enchanted objects; nefarious or necromantic arts; mastery of the sorcerous arts; personal heroics and greatness leading to an "ascendancy" of sorts; drinking from enchanted wells; a binding geas or curse will do it; accepting an eternal service or making an eternal vow; drinking from the fountain of youth or enchanted well springs.

I mean, literally, there are thousands of myths and fables.

Make your own though, if you want to be creative.

Well, it may be interesting for you to take a look at some of the "scientific" methods of immortality, such as human-brain formatting and other related topics. I would suggest looking up "transhumanism", and a guy named Aubrey deGray (I believe that's his names). It's all very scientific, but you could probably come up with some pretty sweet parallels.

Fear of death and the quest for immortality and themes that are VERY prevalent in a lot of my writing. PM me if you want to talk more.

Greek: Eos (dawn) was in love with a handsome prince named Tithonus. She asked Zeus to grant him immortality, which he did. Unfortunately, Eos had forgotten to ask that Tithonus also be granted eternal youth. He got older and older until he became a grasshopper (weird, I know).

I know tons of this stuff, so just ask me if you need more.

Epic of Gilgamesh? It's all about Gil trying to find immortality. And as far as not reusing anything - I find it a lot easier to borrow and twist. Nothing new under the sun and all that jazz. Also, juxtaposition is fun - two disparate elements brought together to form something new: e.g. Scientific immortality that turns you into a grasshopper....

I think I had too much coffee.

~Annie