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* In ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk'', Hyde is aware that as a vampire, he'll outlive his mortal friends, but he's long gotten used to it. On the other hand, he has all the time in the world, so he's in no rush. Either way, he doesn't make his immortality a big deal.

* ''{{VisualNovel/Amplitude}}'': {{Downplayed}}. Theo isn't thrilled to have everyone else passed on him, but he isn't complaining either. His stoic attitude might play a big part here. He is, overall, just showing disappointment at constant battles and turmoils, having to see people he cares for leaving him while being quite indifferent to his own immortality.
* ''VisualNovel/AsherSeries'': Devne Reish asks Kalevel to transform him into a demon and doesn’t seem nearly as disturbed by his new condition as his sister does.

-->'''Peridot''': Sometimes you need to do things you don't want to do! Like get jettisoned into space to live forever on [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere a floating rock with a barn]] and just us [[TimeAbyss for as long as time]] '''[[TimeAbyss exists]]'''!

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': The draenei appear to be functionally immortal (they do not seem to die of old age) and their leader Velen is at least 100,000 years old. Immortality does not bother them at all; they don't even ''talk'' about it. The only impact this has on their culture is that they can travel for decades through space in search of new planets to live.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Gems, being sentient gemstones, don't age, though it is possible to kill one by smashing their gem, and even then it's implied that the remaining shards are [[AndIMustScream still somewhat conscious]]. The Crystal Gems, the ones who reside on Earth, have already lived for thousands of years, with their youngest full-Gem member being five to six thousand years old. It doesn't bother them in the slightest, and to them, their lifespans are as natural as humans having skin (although part of it is that they do perceive time differently — to them, several decades have about the same emotional weight as a day or two to a human). None of the humans that know of them make a big deal of their immortality either.

* A strip in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' World Stars shows [[NationsAsPeople Italy]] being asked by [[HistoricalDomainCharacter one of his period bosses]] how it feels to be immortal, his vague answer was just like anyone being asked about how's life so far, "Well now come to think of it, it's not always fun. But I meet a lot of people". He then proceed to [[DeliberatelyCuteChild casually persuade said figure to buy him lunch]], "If you treat me lunch, I would slip-tongue about them". Although so far only [[TheDitz Italy]] has shown this attitude towards immortality, the others like [[MayflyDecemberRomance France]], [[MayflyDecemberFriendship America]] and [[BreakTheHaughty Prussia]] definitely have more reserved feeling about it.
* ''Anime/MaquiaWhenThePromisedFlowerBlooms'': A character who turns out to be a hybrid between an ordinary human and an immortal one upon his second appearance is quite nonchlant about his immortality.

* The Twilight of the 24th chapter of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic [[Fanfic/TheCelestiaCode The Twilight Enigma]] has seen thousands of years, but shows no signs of ceasing her eternal duties as a facilitator of maintaining what she believes to be the optimal social structure for Equestria. The following quote about the original Twilight's objections to five statues through which the alternate Twilight can channel her five friends who have long since passed sums up her acceptance of her world: "I have no interest in debating it. I settled the matter to my satisfaction thousands of years ago, and whatever thoughts you have about it will not change my mind."
* The [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Alicorns]] of [[Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse the Lunaverse]] are like this, and one scene mentions an offscreen moment when Luna gave Shining Armor TheTalk about his fiancée Cadenza living on with her youth while he withers and will eventually die, and how she will indeed mourn and never forget him, before moving on and finding new love further down the road.

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* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': The Gods are, by nature, immortal, and this movie is no exception to the rule. It is clearly stated that they're immortal, and can't be killed, and don't age, and… they don't seem particularly happy about it. It's just part of their lives. When Baby Hercules becomes mortal thanks to one of Hades's schemes, they are more concerned by the fact that he can't live on Mount Olympus because of that, than "Oh my! Now our baby will die! While we have the incredible luck of NOT dying!". In this case, this is because we deal with characters ''born'' immortal, while most LivingForeverIsAwesome and WhoWantsToLiveForever apply to characters who gain immortality through some magical way.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': A Toon doesn't age, although ''mentally'' their spirit can evolve. Death is literally unknown among toons, may it be by old age or injury. They're crazy enough not to care about it.

* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' has this largely apply to the various immortals in the setting. While they're met with a certain degree of awe and respect, this is mostly because of what they've done rather than how old they are. Some take a certain satisfaction out of it, but Belgarath, the oldest living human at 7000 plus years old, is mostly just pretty comfortable and not overly angsty about his losses, a trait most of them share.
** It's worth noting that he makes an exception if someone, mortal or immortal, died before their time. For instance, his daughter, Beldaran (who didn't inherit the lifespan and died of natural, if somewhat expedited, causes), his wife, Poledra (who died in childbirth [[spoiler: or so it seemed]]), and his brother disciples Belmakor and Belsambar (committed suicide after going over the DespairEventHorizon - though Belmakor he might have been pushed by Zedar). However, he more or less adjusted to Beldaran's death, and is just a little sad about his brothers. Poledra's death is the one that really devastates him, because it's the one he feels he could have done something about if he was there.
** [[TheAgeless Polgara]], meanwhile, largely dismisses her three thousand plus year lifespan, which is all the more startling because her father at least ''[[ElderlyImmortal looks]]'' old - albeit like a very vigorous seventy-year old - while she looks about 30, if that. When it finally sinks in for [[spoiler: Durnik]], her husband, she casually says words to the effect of, "and? You knew I was older."

* In ''Literature/TheIronDruid'', Atticus cultivates this attitude, being apparently completely comfortable with the fact that he's 2100 years old and has outlived pretty much everyone he ever knew who's not a god of some sort, indulging in ImmortalImmaturity (some of it to keep up the facade that he's lived only a little more than 20 ''years'', not centuries and avoid attention). However, it's Subverted. He's gone through a lot of heartache, including losing his wife of 200 years and finding that their vastly extended family had come to see him as [[FountainOfYouth an immortality dispenser]], which unsurprisingly soured him on humanity for a while. [[HiddenDepths He also has some serious advice]] to both his apprentice and [[spoiler: his old archdruid]] about dealing with immortality, pointing out its pitfalls with examples from his own experience, such as: [[ImmortalImmaturity your personality]] [[ImmortalityImmorality changing for the worse]] as you risk getting detached, the inescapable fact that you ''will'' almost certainly outlive the vast majority of your loved ones (if, as he can, you can share the source of your immortality), and that you need to find a purpose and a reason to keep going or you risk falling into a depressive spiral and eventually committing suicide.
* There are plenty of immortals in ''Literature/GodsPlay'', and some, like [[GorgeousGorgon Cassie]], have used the opportunity to cultivate wealth and a life of luxury. Others, like Meryl, have used their long lives to live simply and seek enlightenment.
* In ''Literature/ThisImmortal'', this seems to be [[TheAgeless Conrad's]] approach to life as he's never known any other, and he even seems to have no issue with his relatives and descendants dying before him.
* Onrack the Broken from the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' doesn't mind being a clanless [[TheUndead undead]] who walks the earth, contrary to some of his fellow T'lan Imass. As he puts it, there's always something new to see.
* This seems to be a pretty common attitude among immortals of all kinds in ''Literature/PerryRhodan'' including the eponymous protagonist and his circle of long-term friends. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] on closer examination because this is a setting where "immortality" has been repeatedly shown to be less than absolute (open-ended lifespan, sure, but even SufficientlyAdvancedAliens and PowersThatBe aren't completely immune to violence or even sheer bad luck) and so opting out by dying would always be an option if they really ''wanted'' to; it's just that they're generally not in any hurry and so simply keep going on with their lives in the meantime.
* In ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'', [[spoiler: Dios]] is eventually revealed to be as old as the Old Kingdom itself. [[spoiler: And he might actually be ''infinity'' years old thanks to a temporal paradox.]] When he's incredulously asked how any man can stand to live for so long, he just shrugs and says that "seven thousand years is just one day at the time."

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the draenei appear to be functionally immortal (they do not seem to die of old age) and their leader Velen is at least 100,000 years old. Immortality does not bother them at all; they don't even ''talk'' about it.

* ''Webcomic/KuroShouri'' features a whole society (and some main cast) of demons that appear to live forever and age slowly. That being said, they live in a world with few resources, so many die regardless from starvation, violence, and illness anyway.
* ''Webcomic/{{Noblesse}}'': Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, a.k.a. Rai, seems more like WhoWantsToLiveForever when seen by the rest of the cast, being an incredibly powerful being known as the Noblesse who has lived for millennia and feared for his incredible power and only sparsely received visitors, and only looks happier in recent time when living in a masquerade as a schoolboy. However, Rai himself doesn't think much of his predicament; He ''is'' happier now in the company of the schoolchildren as well his his newfound friends, but otherwise he's content with his life, sipping tea, reading books or just staring out of the window for reasons unknown.

* In ''WebOriginal/SeventeenThousandSevenHundredSeventySix'', everyone alive is at least 15,000 years old, since birth and death ended in the 21[[superscript:st]] Century for unknown reasons. For the most part, they go about their business as usual, having engineered a post-scarcity society precisely advanced enough to let them pursue their hobbies without making life trivially easy for them.

* In ''Literature/TheIronDruid'', Atticus cultivates this attitude, being apparently completely comfortable with the fact that he's 2100 years old and has outlived pretty much everyone he ever knew who's not a god of some sort, indulging in ImmortalImmaturity (some of it to keep up the facade that he's lived only a little more than 20 ''years'', not centuries and avoid attention). However, it's Subverted. He's gone through a lot of heartache, including losing his wife of 200 years and finding that their vastly extended family had come to see him as [[FountainOfYouth an immortality dispenser]], which unsurprisingly soured him on humanity for a while. [[HiddenDepths He also has some serious advice]] to both his apprentice and [[spoiler: his old archdruid]] about dealing with immortality, pointing out its pitfalls with examples from his own experience, such as: [[ImmortalImmaturity your personality]] [[ImmortalImmorality changing for the worse]] as you risk getting detached, the inescapable fact that you ''will'' almost certainly outlive the vast majority of your loved ones (if, as he can, you can share the source of your immortality), and that you need to find a purpose and a reason to keep going or you risk falling into a depressive spiral and eventually committing suicide.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':