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* Helen Magnus from ''Series/Sanctuary2007'' feels this way after [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal the death of her daughter]]. Her attempt to find a cure for her immortality ends with a ZombieApocalypse BadFuture, [[spoiler:and then a ResetButton to prevent her taking the cure and said BadFuture]]. Then Helen has to jump 113 years back in time [[spoiler:to stop Adam Worth from changing the past]]. After that's over, there's no way to get back to her own time, so Helen has to [[TheSlowPath live out 113 years in hiding]], unable to contact anyone she ever knew and forced to watch horrible things happen without being able to do anything about it to prevent changing history herself, until she finally reaches the point in time she first left. She's 147 when the series starts. At the end, she's more than 270. It's no wonder she's jaded.

* Helen Magnus from ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' feels this way after [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal the death of her daughter]]. Her attempt to find a cure for her immortality does not [[ZombieApocalypse end]] [[BadFuture well]].]]
** Actually, it does. [[spoiler:The episode was a ResetButton showing what would happen if she had taken the cure.]]
** And then Helen had to jump 113 years back in time [[spoiler:to stop Adam Worth from changing the past. ]] After that was over, there was no way to get back to her own time. So, Helen had to live out 113 years in hiding, unable to contact anyone she ever knew and forced to watch horrible things happen without being able to do anything about it to prevent changing history herself, until finally she reached the point in time she first left. She was 147 when the series started. At the end, she was more than 270. It's no wonder she's jaded.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E24LongLiveWalterJameson Long Live Walter Jameson]]", the title character is an immortal who has lived for more than 2,000 years. He admits to his close friend Professor Samuel Kittridge that he has grown tired of his eternal life, but he does not have the courage to bring it to an end. He sits with a revolver in his hands every night and hopes that this will be the night that he will force himself to pull the trigger. [[spoiler: Laurette Bowen, one of the many wives that Walter deserted as they grew old, finally puts him out of his misery and shoots him. [[EmptyPileOfClothing He is quickly reduced to dust.]]]]

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E6EscapeClause Escape Clause]]", Walter Bedeker makes a DealWithTheDevil for immortality. He uses his new situation to commit a series of insurance fraud scams by jumping in front of buses and under trains but the thrill of cheating death over and over again eventually fades. After his wife Ethel falls to her death while trying to prevent him from jumping off the roof of their apartment building, Walter confesses to having murdering her. He is looking forward to the experience of being sent to the electric chair. [[spoiler: However, he is instead sentenced to life imprisonment. In order to avoid the unimaginable boredom of being confined for millennia, Walter exercises his escape clause and has the Devil end his life.]]
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E24LongLiveWalterJameson Long Live Walter Jameson]]", the title character is an immortal who has lived for more than 2,000 years. He admits to his close friend Professor Samuel Kittridge that he has grown tired of his eternal life but he does not have the courage to bring it to an end. He sits with a revolver in his hands every night and hopes that this will be the night that he will force himself to pull the trigger. [[spoiler: Laurette Bowen, one of the many wives that Walter deserted as they grew old, finally puts him out of his misery and shoots him. [[EmptyPileOfClothing He is quickly reduced to dust.]]]]
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot has grown weary of immortality after 1,000 years and tells Morgan le Fay that he would welcome death to put an end to his pain and guilt over betraying Myth/KingArthur through his affair with Guinevere.

* In ''Series/Warehouse13'' the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain Count of St. Germain]] was made immortal by his brother [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus Paracelsus]]. He personally doesn't seem to mind but his wife and teenage son Nicholas were immortalized as well, and Nick in particular is a bit angsty about having all his girlfriends lose interest in a 15-year old boy then marry someone else, grow old, and die. [[spoiler: So his mother busts his uncle out of the Warehouse's [[TakenForGranite bronze sector]] thinking he can reverse it.]]

* ''Series/WonderWoman'': In "The Man Who Could Not Die", the newly immortal Bryce Candle is taunted about watching his loved ones grow old and die.