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[[caption-width-right:252:{{Immortality}} [[FateWorseThanDeath is a lot less fun]] [[WhoWantsToLiveForever when you're a tortured, voiceless blob.]]]]

* The song Hamburger Lady by English band Throbbing Gristle to some extent. The song is based on a short writing by Dr. Al Ackerman who seconds as a [[{{Body Horror}} from past medical experiences]] author. The story is focused on a woman burnt severely from the waist up, cutting off all senses and leaving her in a continuous state of agony.

** Atlas being [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] by Athena, using Medusa's head, after he's condemned to bear the heavens (''[[SadlyMythtaken not]]'' the world) on his shoulders for eternity.
** Although in some versions of the tale he ''asked'' to be turned to stone, as carrying the heavens had become too much for him to bear.

* Many religions have this in the form of Hell, a place of fire (usually, otherwise just isolation) in the afterlife. The Christian example in particular has a variant called the lake of fire, which is practically separation from the Almighty, which means that no good or godly thing exists and one is stuck in there for eternity. It's not stated if one can move around or not in hell, but for the unholy trinity it seems that is not the case. Mentions of fire and brimstone (old word for sulfur), outer darkness,''worms'', "corpses" and being unstoppable. It is also likened to being sliced apart by a sword and it being better to take one's eye or hand off and go life crippled than to go to hell. The only "good" thing is that it is not the same for everyone, for instance an honest pagan would have it like ''heaven'' compared to the demonic host.

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--> Darkness imprisoning me\\

Taken my soul, left me with life in Hell!

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A character suffers from an extremely horrifying FateWorseThanDeath. [[DrivenToSuicide Suicide]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate is not an option]]; even death never comes to free him from it. He is immobilized or otherwise contained, unable to communicate with anyone, and unlikely to be removed from this situation -- not even by death -- anytime in the foreseeable future.

-->[[spoiler:"It grows from here. Reginald begins reducing more and more actions to simple lines of dialogue: "nod", "dance", "laugh", "love". Eventually his muscles atrophy; his body wastes away. Only the left hemisphere of his brain remains alive, the spoken word itself reduced to mere thought. And once Beartato earns his master's degree and invents a brain-to-speech synthesizer, that final thought is at last heard: [[TearJerker "Weep a single tear for the life I have wasted."]]]]

* Done in [[http://www.channelate.com/2014/07/02/not-hell/ this strip]] from ''WebComic/ChannelAte''.

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* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' had an AI disconnected from the mainframe, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-08-19 but still left running]], with no sensor input and no way to control anything or alert anybody to [[spoiler: her]] predicament. [=AIs=] in that universe operate so fast that they don't experience time the same way as humans do; a few seconds of real time is like millennia for them. This AI is left in this state for several hours, which seem like endless eons to [[spoiler: her]], while everyone else is unaware of [[spoiler: her]] situation. By the time [[spoiler: she]] is finally reconnected, [[spoiler:she]] has gone murderously insane.

** The true horror of that scene is that we see the character apparently drowning [[spoiler: herself]]. [[DrivenToSuicide What we see here is what happens when the desire to die]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate and the Third Law of robotics]] [[GoMadFromTheIsolation combine with extended isolation.]]

* At the end of Act 3 of ''Theatre/KingLear'', Gloucester's eyes are forcibly removed by Regan and Cornwall. This doesn't sound too horrific, but then you remember that back [[FridgeHorror then people thought that if your weren't "whole" you would be consigned to Hell when you died...]]

* Downplayed and even made [[PlayedForLaughs slightly humorous]] in Stephen Sondheim's ''Sunday in the Park with George.'' At the end of Act One, all of the characters we've seen throughout the first act form a living tableau of ''A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'', Georges Seurat's masterpiece. It's a beautiful, powerful image... until Act Two begins. It's been one hundred years, and the people in that idyllic park scene have been trapped there for all of that time. While they're able to stretch slightly, they can only do so for a few seconds before they have to return to their positions. Time has stopped for them, and while they can't age, they're also wearing many thick layers of clothing on a blisteringly hot summer day, surrounded by people they've come to despise in the past century, and frozen exactly as they were the moment the painting was finished (a little girl with bad vision isn't wearing her glasses, so her vision will always be hopelessly blurred, ''and'' her hands are sticky; a boatman with bad hygiene has his odor lingering around him--and those sitting near him--and so on). And so long as art historians keep restoring ''La Grande Jatte,'' they're going to be stuck like that ''forever.''

* Many religions have this in the form of [[Hell]], a place of fire (usually, otherwise just isolation) in the afterlife. The Christian example in particular has a variant called the lake of fire, which is practically separation from the Almighty, which means that no good or godly thing exists and one is stuck in there for eternity. It's not stated if one can move around or not in hell, but for the unholy trinity it seems that is not the case. Mentions of fire and brimstone (old word for sulfur), outer darkness, [[Squick ''worms'']], "corpses" and being unstoppable. IT is also likened to being sliced apart by a sword and it being better to take one's eye or hand off and go life crippled than to go to hell.

*** Unless Guilliman is still human enough to have the same endorphins as humans (and we're pretty sure he is). The human body actually dulls your pain in the moment of death, see, so in the words of 4chan "Guilliman's been high as a kite for the last ten thousand years."
*** Again, point of view is everything. Guilliman is serving as inspiration to his chapter and their many many successors. While he might be suffering (and even that's quite a noble thing in the Imperium), he is also watching over his sons as they fight for the Emperor as he did. Even in their darkest days, Guilliman is standing vigil...

** ''Fulgrim'' has an impressive one of these, [[spoiler:as the primarch Fulgrim is eventually completely possessed by the demon joyriding in him, who keeps him fully aware of its actions in his body, which is mutated by the demon into something more pleasing to it. While his soul was trapped inside a portrait.]] As this occurred during the Literature/HorusHeresy, the fate is up to 10,000 years and running.
*** Not necessarily; Horus vowed that he would free [[spoiler:Fulgrim]] from that particular fate, and there's a chance he managed it before dying. We'll have to wait and see.
*** Then it's revealed that [[spoiler:Fulgrim had successfully regain control of his body, and he trapped the daemon in the portrait he was trapped in, and fully embraced his new form as a Daemon Prince.]]
*** This could be a case of CursedWithAwesome, as all fallen Primarchs are now [[PhysicalGod Daemon Princes]].
*** The primarch Lorgar spends his entire time thinking about the true nature of Chaos.

Sometimes appears as a {{Backstory}}, if a [[SealedIndexInACan Sealed Person In A Can]] was aware while sealed away. Can overlap with GoMadFromTheIsolation if the character's separated from other people rather than among them but unable to interact.

* Ravi, a planeswalker in the [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering world of Ulgrotha]], was desperate to end a huge war. She did so by ringing the Apocalypse Chime, which wiped out the whole battlefield of its warring parties, and put herself in a magic coffin designed by her mentor to avoid the destruction. Unfortunately, she didn't ascertain how to get OUT. [[spoiler:She was eventually found by Baron Sengir, becoming the "delightfully" mad Grandmother Sengir.]]
* In Burning Empires, [[PuppeteerParasite infection by a Vaylen]] is treated much the same way as character permadeath because the infected character is irreversibly rendered unable to control its own body, effectively comatose, ''even'' when there's no worm driving it around.

* The canonical fiction of [[TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} Cyberpunk 2020]] has Alt Cunningham's personality/mind transfered into cyberspace by the evil Arasaka Corporation. When the connection to her lifeless body is severed, she becomes permanently trapped in there: "Behind the walls of monitors, a disembodied Alt screams to [her boyfriend]".

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s exile mechanic tend to use this trope (or otherwise a FateWorseThanDeath) or CessationOfExistence to remove a creature from the game, such as the case with [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=368514 Unmake]]

*** In current 5e, Imprisonment can be cast by Warlocks and Wizards as a level 9 spell. The effect vary, but each one is what-the-fucktopus territory. '''Burial''' is the classic version, '''Chaining''' and '''Slumber''' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, '''Hedge Prison''' throws the target in a PocketDimension of whatever the caster wants, be it a tower, a cage, another confined structure, or, if you're feeling especially sadist, a labyrinth, and '''Minimus Containment''', which shrinks the target down to 1 inch, and places them in a gemstone for your viewing pleasure. Every version can only be dispelled by the caster, if a condition set by the caster is fulfilled or if someone wastes a Level 9 Dispell Magic, requiring a level 19 spell caster at least. If you don't have that, and really want your friend back, have fun searching down that ''Wish'' scroll

*** In current 5e, Imprisonment can be cast by Warlocks and Wizards as a level 9 spell. The effect vary, but each one is what-the-fucktopus territory. '''Burial''' is the classic version, '''Chaining''' and '''Slumber''' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, '''Hedge Prison''' throws the target in a PocketDimension of whatever the caster wants, be it a tower, a cage, another confined structure, or, if you're feeling especially sadist, a labyrinth, and '''Minimus Containment''', which shrinks the target down to 1 inch, and places them in a gemstone for your viewing pleasure. Every version can only be dispelled by the caster, if a condition set by the caster is fulfilled, if someone wastes a Level 9 Dispell Magic, requiring a level 19 spell caster at least.

* ''Theater/{{Wicked}}'' has a particularly ambiguous and downright disturbing example. It's said throughout the play that animals are losing their power of speech, and if applicable, their ability to walk on two legs. But we're never told whether or not they actually remember when they could walk and talk, leaving one of two possibilities: either they have forgotten their own sentience, or they are ''psychologically tortured to the point of not speaking out for fear something will happen.'' Something Bad indeed.

* In ''Podcast/TheBrightSessions'', [[PowerCopying Mark]] was forced to mentally travel back to the 1800s with time traveler Camille. Unfortunately she died, and his mind was left stranded, unable to interact with anything or anyone, whilst his body was stuck in a coma in a BlackSite in the present. [[spoiler: Fortunately his sister found another time traveler and figured a way to rescue him after two years.]]

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