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* In the ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'' series, radiation under very specific conditions [[note]](by and large seems to be long-term exposure to high levels of background radiation)[[/note]] can render a person effectively immortal, turning them into a 'ghoul'. Ghouls do not age and even heal from radiation, but lose most of their skin and hair as it flakes off in big chunks, suffer the long term effects of age leading to severe cataracts and arthritis, and becoming infertile. However, those exposed to too much radiation during ghoulification - but not enough to outright kill them - lose their mind and become 'feral', essentially mindless zombies. Ghouls who receive even more radiation can become Glowing Ones, ghouls that have a SicklyGreenGlow and can erupt in a burst of radiation to harm and heal. While most Glowing One ghouls are feral, one Jason [[MeaningfulName Bright]] is a Glowing One who hasn't become feral and leads a cult in a rocket facility in [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Henderson]]. In ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'', Eddie Winters, a Pre-War crime lord, underwent an experimental radiation regime months before the Great War. He's still kicking 220 years later. Other people got ghoulified the hard way -- gamma radiation from nuclear bombs.

* A plot point in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' is "Project Laz'r'us", which was intended to circumvent humanity's [[WeAreAsMayflies short lifespans]] in comparison to many other sophonts using hyper-advanced nanotechnology. The nannies are also capable of repairing a clinically dead host and even making internal backups of the brain. The species from whose computer equipment carbosilicate amorphs has evolved already made themselves immortal and ran into several layers of problems. Still, there's a few remaining individuals alive and sane after their twelve million Terran years, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-07-14 "give or take a little bit."]]

* A plot point in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' is "Project Laz'r'us", which was intended to circumvent humanity's [[WeAreAsMayflies short lifespans]] in comparison to many other sophonts using hyper-advanced nanotechnology. The nannies are also capable of repairing a clinically dead host and even making internal backups of the brain. The species from whose computer equipment carbosilicate amorphs has evolved already made themselves immortal and ran into several layers of problems. Still, there's a few remaining individuals alive and sane after their twelve million Terran years, "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-07-14 give or take a little bit]]".

** The sarcophagus can extend the life of a human without a [[PuppeteerParasite Goa'uld]] for 700 years or so, hosts for millennia. Unfortunately it makes the user megalomaniacal. [[ImmortalityImmorality Because reasons.]]

-->-- '''CEO Nwabudike Morgan, [=MorganLink=] [=3DVision=] Live Interview''', "Longevity Vaccine", ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

* In John Norman's ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' novels, the Caste of Physicians developed a treatment called the Stabilization Serums, which allowed the recipient to live for hundreds of years [[note]]in 'Marauders of Gor', Tarl meets someone who is almost certainly the legendary founder of Torvaldsland, which would make him about 1000 years old[[/note]]. The Priest-Kings, the PhysicalGods of the setting, have a similar treatment, the oldest being about 5,000,000 years old.

** There's also an event where you find a tree floating in space with sap that can extend your leaders' lifespans, or be distributed to the whole population for a boost in morale.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', the Illuminati provides life extending drugs to its senior members such as Mace Malone, who is in remarkably good health for a man in his nineties. When Matt Bluestone remarks on this, Mace wrly responds that [[SignedUpForTheDental Matt should see their dental plan]], flashing a smile full of perfect white, even natural teeth.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has a variety of technologies that add extra years to your Leaders' life expectancies, it's also possible to use [[LegoGenetics gene tailoring]] to add the [[LongLived Enduring (+30 years) or Venerable (+90)]] traits to one or more of your species.

** ''A World Out of Time'' has an immortality treatment for adults that involves removing impurities from the body.

* From Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' stories:
** Boosterspice (a drug derived from genetically engineered ragweed) can tremendously extend the human lifespan.

-->'''[=-=][=-=] CEO Nwabudike Morgan, [=MorganLink=] [=3DVision=] Live Interview''', "Longevity Vaccine", ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

* In ''Turnabout'' by Margaret Peterson Haddix, the government is working on a top-secret experiment in 2000 to reverse the aging process. And it works - the main characters, who were extremely elderly and would have died before long, are given the chance to grow young again. Unfortunately, they haven't figured out a working way to ''stop'' the un-aging.

* In the ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'' series, radiation under very specific conditions [[note]](by and large seems to be long-term exposure to high levels of background radiation)[[/note]] can render a person effectively immortal, turning them into a 'ghoul'. Ghouls do not age and even heal from radiation, but lose most of their skin and hair as it flakes off in big chunks, suffer the long term effects of age leading to severe cataracts and arthritis, and becoming infertile. However, those exposed to too much radiation during ghoulification - but not enough to outright kill them - lose their mind and become 'feral', essentially mindless zombies. Ghouls who receive even more radiation can become Glowing Ones, ghouls that glow a SicklyGreen and can erupt in a burst of radiation to harm and heal. While most Glowing One ghouls are feral, one Jason [[MeaningfulName Bright]] is a Glowing One who hasn't become feral and leads a cult in a rocket facility in [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Henderson]]. In ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'', Eddie Winters, a Pre-War crime lord, underwent an experimental radiation regime months before the Great War. He's still kicking 220 years later. Other people got ghoulified the hard way -- gamma radiation from nuclear bombs.

** There is a secret project called 'The Longevity Vaccine' and another called 'Clinical Immortality'.

* In the ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'' series, radiation under very specific conditions can render a person effectively immortal, turning them into a 'ghoul'. Ghouls do not age, but lose most of their skin and hair, and become infertile. However, those exposed to too much radiation during ghoulification - but not enough to outright kill them - lose their mind and become 'feral', essentially mindless zombies. In ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'', Eddie Winters, a Pre-War crime lord, underwent an experimental radiation regime months before the Great War. He's still kicking 220 years later. Other people got ghoulified the hard way -- gamma radiation from nuclear bombs.
** While the Super Mutants altered by the Forced Evolution Virus in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'' are still around and at full fighting strength over a century later.

* The Lazarus Pits used by ComicBook/RasAlGhul rejuvenate him every century or so.

-> ''"I plan to live forever of course, but barring that, I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice."''
-->-- '''CEO Nwabudike Morgan - [=MorganLink=] [=3DVision=] Interview''', ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

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* Longevity treatments exist in the ''MutantChronicles'' setting, but between the astronomic expense, the invasive surgery and the extremely strict regimen of diet and exercise required for the treatment to be effective, very few people bother.

* The Betans of the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' allegedly have one, which people assume is the reason that Admiral Naismith commands a mercenary fleet while appearing to be in his early twenties. In truth, there is no such treatment, and Admiral Naismith really is in his early twenties. The Jacksonians have a highly unethical treatment in which the brain of a wealthy client is transferred into the body of a younger clone. Mark Vorkosigan has made it his life's work to eliminate that practice, and as of the chronologically latest book was about to begin testing of a treatment that could potentially revert someone from 'old' to 'middle aged'.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has a variety of technologies that add extra years to your Leaders' life expectancies, it's also possible to use [[LegoGenetics gene tailoring]] to add the [[LongLivedSpecies Enduring (+30 years) or Venerable (+90)]] traits to one or more of your species.

* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Trade-Ins" an elderly couple go to a clinic that can give them new, younger bodies. But, they only have enough money for one of them.