History WhoWantsToLiveForever / FanWorks

* Some fanfictions have Ryuko be LongLived due her being [[spoiler: part life-fiber]]. How she'd deal with it varies but most of the fics it where it's this trope, with [[https://vagabondfromkanto-archived.tumblr.com/post/100989417001/if-you-happened-to-be-immortal-youll-have-to-see one blog showing her to be mourning]], while a vigenette from [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/4007182/chapters/15876385 this fic]] has her feeling their absence. They make for a lonely read.

* Elsa has this to a degree in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13443988/1/Lady-in-White-Legacy Lady in White: Legacy]]", although she prefers to think of herself as just staying the same while everything changes rather than consider herself outright immortal; she doesn't 'want' to die per se, but mourns how she has outlived her original friends and her sister, and had to witness her nephew being killed during an anti-royalty revolution (that she believes was provoked by outsiders) and focus on protecting his children at his request.

* In the {{Film/Transformers}} fanfic ''[[FanFic/ThingsWeDontTellHumans Things We Don't Tell Humans]]'', the Autobots think that Dana and Tom should be worried about this. They're not. Sam, on the other hand...

!!''Adventure Time'''

In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', Baby Smurf comes from Smurfling Island, where nobody ages, as also do the Smurflings with the exception of Sassette, who came from a CrystalPrison. It is presumed that whoever lives on that island has their aging forever locked at a certain age, which is why when Baby Smurf first appears in the Smurf Village, he is no more than a day old despite probably being older than that. At first the parents of the child want Baby Smurf be brought back, but after Smurfette's letter being written to them explaining how terrible it would be to condemn a Baby Smurf to living forever without ever aging to become an older Smurf, the parents realize the wisdom in Smurfette's statement and thus allow Baby Smurf to stay in the Smurf Village forever to be able to grow up.

!!''Sonic the Hedgehog'''

* The fic ''[[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1zZZnizNM_2hh_UQ22gmk2VChBrlFCmyLevNuCbKbSaQ Circle of Friends]]'' has this as the whole theme. [[GodEmperor Princesses Celestia and Luna]] abdicated to Twilight Sparkle so they could die, then she allowed her friends to live as long as they wished to, they lasted a couple centuries before they could no longer take it. At the end Princess Twilight is training her successor so she can [[TogetherInDeath join her friends]].

!!'' Blaze Blue''

* Miser in the '' VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fic ''FanFic/FutureGenerations'', who is 'blessed' with immortality and looking for a way out of it.

* {{Subverted}} in the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' fanfic ''FanFic/UndocumentedFeatures'' -- his loved ones decide to get the immortality treatment as well. Then the people who care about ''them'', until ''every single Wedge Rat'' is immortal. As are their descendants.

* The ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' fanfiction ''[[Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon Abraxas]]'' sees San (the severed [[MultipleHeadCase left head]] of [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]]) merge with Dr. Vivienne Graham, turning them both into a two-headed/dual-minded half-Ghidorah creature which eventually becomes [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX Monster X]], and the power of love brings San to a HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler:As Ghidorah points out to them,]] Monster X has more than likely inherited [[TjeAgeless Ghidorah's immortality]] through San, giving Monster X some angsty food for thought as they're going to outlive all their other loved ones with the possible exceptions of some other Titans.

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!!''The Fairly OddParents''

!!'''Invader Zim'''

!!''Lilo and Stitch'''

!! ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan works:

!!'''Powerpuff Girls'''

!! ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanworks:
* The fic ''[[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1zZZnizNM_2hh_UQ22gmk2VChBrlFCmyLevNuCbKbSaQ Circle of Friends]]'' has this as the whole theme. [[GodEmperor Princesses Celestia and Luna]] abdicated to Twilight Sparkle so they could die, then she allowed her friends to live as long as they wished to, they lasted a couple centuries before they could no longer take it. At the end Princess Twilight is training her successor so she can [[TogetherInDeath join her friends]].
%% * ''Fanfic/{{Whispers}}'': Princess Celestia reflects on this trope a bit.
%% * ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoovesAndAssistant'': In one episode, Princess Celestia goes through this, [[spoiler:as a result of the cyberponies trying to break her will to convert her into a living battery for their planet.]]
* Played with in ''[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/05/story-merely-mare.html Merely A Mare]]'':
** Celestia and Luna have been around for more than four hundred '''[[TimeAbyss million]]''' years, created and witnessed the extinction of entire species, and have near perfect recollection of ''everything'' (except that Celestia can't remember ponies' faces and Luna can't remember ponies' names). Despair is a frequent threat to them, but ultimately they decide to soldier on because they have no choice.
** Played very straight with [[spoiler:the original alicorns]], and the reason for their extinction. They were immune to age or disease but still died from accidents or violence, except they ''didn't'' have near-perfect memories, meaning they eventually forgot their dead loved ones but still kept the pain and grief, now with no idea ''why'' they felt this way. It eventually drove them insane and they started slaughtering each other.
* Parodied in ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/59796/1/celestias-big-day/suicidal-failure Celestia's Big Day]]'' (warning: sort of NSFW): Princess Celestia:
** She holds this view, even as Cadence and Luna point out the common reasons for this trope (loved ones die around them, no one else understands immortality, is forced to remember every event of their lives, both good and bad, boredom, etc.) do not apply to alicorns. Does not stop Celestia [[CrossesTheLineTwice from giving suicide the old college try though]].
** It's explained by both Luna and Cadence that this happens every few centuries and it's just better to let her get it out of her system.
* ''Fanfic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': Late in the sequel ''The Mare From the Moon'', Spliced Genome begins to really hate her immortality. [[spoiler: After years of promising to turn her mortal, those in charge admit that they lost the process to render her mortal again. This only furthers her growing depression.]]
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/162801/best-friends-forever Best Friends Forever]]'' has Twilight Sparkle constantly using an [[FountainOfYouth Age Change Spell]] on her friends and had closed off all access to the outside world in order to preserve their lives. [[spoiler:This all stemmed from Twilight being turned into an Alicorn by Celestia, and being forced to watch as those around her died from old age; with Fluttershy's death being the final straw that broke Twilight's mind. Twilight's usage of the regression spell shown that it also spread the mindset of Living Forever being a terrible thing to her friends when looking at a picture of one of them: [[EmptyEyes showing how lifeless their eyes were now]]. Near the end, Celestia manages to kill Twilight [[note]] it could be argued that all of this was simply her trying to use SuicideByCop so [[TogetherInDeath Twilight could be with Fluttershy again]], considering that she might have already tried [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate only for it to not work.]][[/note]] ]]
* ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'' is a response to all the "immortality sucks" fics. According to Celestia and Luna the idea that one would get "bored with life" is ridiculous and Malthus was an idiot. The only thing that makes it heartbreakingly painful for them is the whole "outliving your loved ones" bit, and they're working on that by trying to make everypony else immortal.
* Fanfic/RealityChecksNyxverse: RecursiveFanfiction of ''Fanfic/PastSins''. Nyx spends most of the first chapter of ''Alicornundrum'' angsting over the fact that, as an alicorn, she'll outlive all her friends and loved ones... and is naturally thrilled beyond words when [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Twilight becomes one too]].
* ''Fanfic/TheNuptialverse'': In ''Metamorphosis'', Celestia and Luna are revealed to despise being immortal [[spoiler:because its a constant reminder to them of how Discord murdered their family and friends.]]
* ''Fanfic/DiariesOfAMadman'': A repeated theme:
** Discord desperately tries to find an outlet for his boredom having lived for billions of years.
** Celestia mentions she would rather have lived a normal life and died thousands of years ago, a sentiment it can be assumed Luna shares.
** When Navarone gains a much increased life expectancy after his accidental EmergencyTransformation, he's rather despondent.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Duties}}'', Rarity and Applejack are saddened by the fact that due to them being immortal alicorn rulers now, they will see their family and loved ones die one day.
* In ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'', Rampage doesn't. Apparently, several other Reapers ([[spoiler:and many of the former Marauders]]) have this problem.
* In ''FanFic/ItTakesAVillage'', Spike is not happy about his projected lifespan, although Princess Luna did provide some perspective along an offer of friendship. On the whole mostly averted once Spike decides that by living as long as he will he can keep the memories of his friends alive for their descendants.
* Brought up in the cases of Spike and Celestia in ''Fanfic/LastOneStanding'', who are doomed to outlive everyone they know.
* Apple Bloom has a bit of this in ''Fanfic/LunaTheMatchMaker'', especially seeing as [[CantCatchUp everyone else is finding their mates for life and cutie marks]] while she’s still lost and alone.
%% * Bon Bon's attitude toward her Fae heritage in ''Fanfic/{{Mendacity}}''.
* In ''Fanfic/NightOfTheShy'', certainly not Birostris Oswaft after ten thousand years of being the LastOfHisKind, so he convinces Twilight to MercyKill him.
* ''Fanfic/ThePetricultureCycle'': Discussed and averted in ''π''. Not only does Penumbra not put any stock in this trope, it turns out that it isn't even applicable. Alicorns aren't actually immortal; they just "don't leave until they're ready to go."
* In ''Fanfic/TheBestNightEver'', theoretically, should Blueblood desire to do so, he could stay eternally youthful within the GroundhogDayLoop forever. He instead tries his hardest to get out. [[spoiler:After hundreds of repeats, he eventually does and [[CharacterDevelopment becomes a much better stallion for it]]]].
* In ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'', Cadence is genuinely afraid of outliving everypony she has ever cared for. Celestia and Luna lean more towards LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal, though they have their own hang-ups. Discord meanwhile is more on the side that LivingForeverIsAwesome.
** Later in the story, Marcus realizes that [[spoiler:he (and possibly also Cheerilee and even Lyra) could have their own ascensions as well, making him fear the possibility of suffering this. Luna reassures him that as long as he has fellow immortals alongside him, he (and by extension anyone else in the same boat) [[YouAreNotAlone won't be alone]]]].
* In ''FanFic/TheGreatSlaveKing'', Arch Duke Fifi le Yipya wishes for nothing more but to die and rejoin his old master. He [[DontYouDarePityMe does not take kindly to pity]].
* In ''FanFic/TheJewelleryBox'', Spike mourns the loss of his friends [[spoiler: because they died hundreds of years ago. His desire to have them back is what triggers his greed growth again, but because he feels he can never really have them back he retains his rational mind.]]
* The beginning of PeggySue fic ''FanFic/TheTroubleWithTimeTravel'' features Twilight being bored of being the Element of Magic.
* The DarkFic ''FanFic/TwilightsDollhouse'' deals with Twilight's insecurities about outliving her friends in a rather tragic way.
* In ''Fanfic/TwilightThenTwilightNowUniverse'', [[spoiler: Applejack has been immortal since the first fall of Tambelon. She continuously regrets that she ever became immortal. Admittedly, a large part of this is the fact she has lived through ''multiple'' {{Gotterdammerung}}s and watched her beloved home pushed to the brink of annihilation, only to survive by decaying into a CrapsackWorld, which has left her rather... broken]].
* Explored with in ''FanFic/WithinAndWithout'' as Luna comes to terms with her past mistakes. [[spoiler: It's also revealed that the Elements of Harmony grant their bearers the choice of immortality.]]
* [[http://goodmorningcelestia.tumblr.com/post/88214804584/if-she-was-immortal-i-suspect-timing-would-be This fancomic]] suggests that "Immortal Twilight" fics go one of two ways. If the author is [[EmoTeen 20]], she gets all {{Wangst}}y. But if the author is 30:
--> '''Twilight''': ''"[[LivingForeverIsAwesome Wooo! In your face Grim Reaper!]]"''
* In ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/99216/forever-young Forever Young]]'', Discord has cast an immortality spell on Fluttershy so he wouldn't have to outlive her. Problem is, Fluttershy doesn't want to outlive her friends either. Discord offers the same spell to any of her friends, but Fluttershy asks Rarity and realizes they all have friends and loved ones they wouldn't want to leave behind. [[spoiler:Discord ends up secretly casting a mortality spell on himself - when Fluttershy ultimately dies of old age, he's not far behind.]]
* The 4everfreebrony song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Zop1dRHOU Chant of Immortality]]" .
* ''Fanfic/PrincessTrixieSparkle'':
** Starswirl was an immortal unicorn who, after several centuries, felt weary of his extended lifespan. Eventually he found a replacement and transferred his immortality to her.
** [[spoiler:Astelle]] was given Starswirl's immortality but ran off after he rejected her love. She came back afterwards mainly became she didn't want to be immortal if they couldn't be immortal together. She takes it poorly when it's revealed that Starswirl "cursed" [[spoiler:her younger sister Celestia (and their younger sister Luna)]] with the same immortality. [[spoiler:A thousand years later, Astelle's immortality is broken when she's BroughtDownToNormal and turned back into an Earth pony]].

!!Other works:

!!!Azumanga Daioh

!!!''Code Geass''

!!!''Death Note'''

!!!''Hetalia''

!!!''Kill la Kill''

!!!''Naruto''

!!!Pokemon (Anime)

!!!Puella Madoka Magica

!!!Ranma 1/2

!!!Sailor Moon

!!!'' Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann''

!!!''Yu-Gi-Oh''

!!!'''Marvel'''

!!!Disney

* Explored in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8855684/1/ex-umbra-in-solem ex umbra in solem]]'', a crossover fic between ''Series/{{Warehouse13}}'' and ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', where the various immortal characters have all become varying degrees of unstable. Helena G. Wells (while not immortal is over 100 years old via HumanPopsicle [[note]]The fact that said century was in an AndIMustScream esque prison couldn't have helped.[[/note]]) went [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds went mad with grief and tried to end the world]], John Druitt is an immortal Jack the Ripper, Helen Magnus is somewhat jaded and has an IDidWhatIHadToDo approach, Nikola Tesla is eccentric and a bit of a megalomaniac, and Adam Worth is a psychopath. Artie and Nigel Griffin talk about it:

!!!''Transformers''

!!!Other

!!!''Harry Potter''

!!!''Lord of the Rings'''

!!!''Twilight''

!!!''Wicked''

!!!Light Novels
* Subverted in the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' fanfic ''FanFic/UndocumentedFeatures'' -- his loved ones decide to get the immortality treatment as well. Then the people who care about ''them'', until ''every single Wedge Rat'' is immortal. As are their descendants.
** Played somewhat straight in ''Aegis Florea 2'' when [[spoiler:Sumire]] is revealed to have, as a result of a combination of this Trope, VictoryIsBoring and [[spoiler:her own unrequited love for Gryphon]], spent the previous forty years in the throes of a HeroicBSOD until [[spoiler:Kei]] reboots her with a WhatTheHellHero[=/=]TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that is so scathing and insulting that she cannot help but to rouse from her self-imposed emotional stupor and get angry.

[[folder: Live Action TV]]

!!!'' Blaze Blue''

!!!Nitendo

!!!''Sonic the Hedgehog'''

!!!'' Touhou Project''

!!!Other Video Games

!!!''Adventure Time'''

!!!''The Fairly OddParents''

!!!''Gravity Falls''

!!!'''Invader Zim'''

!!!''Lilo and Stitch'''

!!!''Miraculous Ladybug''

!!!'''Powerpuff Girls'''
* The ''Powerpuff Girls'' oneshot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5162433/1/Deicide Deicide]]'' is about Blossom having an existential crisis over her invincibility. She [[NotGrowingUpSucks can't age over five]] and is functionally immortal. It gets to the point where she has a breakdown and tries to kill herself.

!!!''The Smurfs''

!!!''Xiaolin Showdown''

Elsa has this to a degree in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13443988/1/Lady-in-White-Legacy Lady in White: Legacy]]", although she prefers to think of herself as just staying the same while everything changes rather than consider herself outright immortal; she doesn't 'want' to die per se, but mourns how she has outlived her original friends and her sister, and had to witness her nephew being killed during an anti-royalty revolution (that she believes was provoked by outsiders) and focus on protecting his children at his request.

* Some fanfictions have Ryuko be LongLived due her being [[spoiler: part life-fiber]]. How she'd deal with it varies but most of the fics it where it's this trope, with [[https://vagabondfromkanto-archived.tumblr.com/post/100989417001/if-you-happened-to-be-immortal-youll-have-to-see one blog showing her to be mourning]], while a vigenette from [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/4007182/chapters/15876385 this fic]] has her feeling their absence.

!!!'' Tengen ToppaGurren Lagann''

* The Avengers fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8595034/1/Lazarus-Daughter Lazarus' Daughter]]'', about a girl whose father gives her a serum that provides immortality. [[spoiler:In chapter 16 she gets access to a vial that could cure her and questions all the things she misses out on as an immortal]]
* Shocker in ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'' is cursed with immortality. [[DeathSeeker He wants to die more than anything.]] [[spoiler: However, his wish is never fulfilled. The Interceptor buries him alive in ''The Interceptor's Challenge'', leaving him in a [[AndIMustScream permanent cycle of death and resurrection]].]]

* ''FanFic/BagEnders'' doesn't really explore this much, but since the Fellowship are now over six thousand years old and have been having embarrassing misadventures together for most of that time, one wonders if their immortality is really a reward for saving Middle-earth or a punishment.
* The ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4882648/1/Never_Die Never Die]]'' explores the real meaning of Elphaba's spell on Fiyero, specifically the never die part and the fact spells cannot be reversed, it sets this troper off in hysterical tears every time.
* The ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' fic ''[[http://www.kasuto.net/fanfic.php?main=fanfic/eternity.html&top=fanfic/eternitymenu.html Eternity]]'' features a BigBad [[spoiler:who achieved immortality and is trying desperately to die, even if it means destroying all of Hyrule in the process.]]
* One ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' fanfiction had the eponymous dolphin endure immortality, outliving his family and friends, watching species pass into and out of existence, and even getting to see the sun swell tremendously within the span of his long, long life. He eventually attempts to kill himself with the incredible pressure of the deep ocean, [[spoiler:ending in something of a MindScrew in that he somehow finds the surface of his youth, friends and all. It then cuts to Ecco's dead body, very old by dolphin standards but hardly immortal, and two young dolphins commenting that he'd been off in his own world for most of his old age.]]
* In the {{Film/Transformers}} fanfic ''[[FanFic/ThingsWeDontTellHumans Things We Don't Tell Humans]]'', the Autobots think that Dana and Tom should be worried about this. They're not. Sam, on the other hand...
* ''Fanfic/TouhouIbunshu'', as a DarkFic of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', naturally has characters that were originally on the LivingForeverIsAwesome side of things take a turn closer to this trope. Mokou is the most spectacular and insane example, having lost her mind completely a long time ago (she claims to have spent a decade or so experimenting on interesting ways to kill herself), but the most altered from the original is [[spoiler:Yukari]], who is so utterly ''bored'' of being confined to the same old Gensoukyou for centuries that she decides to [[spoiler:obliterate Gensoukyou entirely, which would finally give her a chance at being free]].
** The theme continues all the stronger into the last story of the series, featuring Kaguya, Eirin and Mokou, three immortals of a different variety than Yukari. The climax of the FinalBattle with Mokou has [[spoiler: the [[PhysicalGod Phoenix]] appearing and offering the three the ability to die, either right then and there or after aging naturally. [[LonersAreFreaks Mokou]] takes the first option, while [[HappilyMarried Kaguya and Eirin]] opt to continue on together till the end of time]].
* In ''Fanfic/AHero'', a crossover between ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', after it is revealed that ''Puella Magi'' don't age, Madoka starts to worry immensely about Sayaka falling into this trope. Though Dalek Sec has been around for a quarter of a billion years from his perspective, and sees it as good thing, so he could give pointers as to how to deal with it.
* The ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1759811/1/A_Seedling_Among_The_Ashes A Seedling Among The Ashes]]'' has [[spoiler:Makoto]] deal with it since by the time the Sailor Senshi gain their immortality [[spoiler:she is already married with two kids]]. It does have a happy end though.
* The ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' AU ''Fanfic/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsdayStories'' plays with the idea in the case of Austria. While he was eventually able to shrug off, albeit with difficulty, the chaos of [[WorldWarIII Doomsday]], his denial of [[spoiler:Hungary's death]] until several years later proved to damage his sanity. Fortunately, things do get better. But had [[spoiler:Hungary]] not shown up, he would have spent the rest of his life in perpetual grief, if not turn into a deranged {{Yandere}}.
* Elsa has this to a degree in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13443988/1/Lady-in-White-Legacy Lady in White: Legacy]]", although she prefers to think of herself as just staying the same while everything changes rather than consider herself outright immortal; she doesn't 'want' to die per se, but mourns how she has outlived her original friends and her sister, and had to witness her nephew being killed during an anti-royalty revolution (that she believes was provoked by outsiders) and focus on protecting his children at his request.
* In ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' Dumbledore holds this position believing death is the start of the next big adventure and genuinely doesn't understand why anyone would even think about immortality. Harry explains that while Dumbledore believes in an afterlife, not everyone does and for them, death would be his equivalent of the destruction of a soul.
* The ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' and ''Manga/OnePiece'' crossover fic ''Fanfic/ShinobiOfTheHighSeas'' has Naruto's first line in the whole story being about how boring being immortal is.

* Timothy Neogene/Timmy Turner in the ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' fanfic series ''FanFic/BurningBlack''. Timothy's immortality can let him survive anything, which isn't as cool once one thinks about what that really means.
* Most of C.C.’s actions in ''FanFic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance'' result from weariness of her immortality.
* In the [[AlternateUniverse AU]] ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' fic ''FanFic/DemonOfWind'', Guan and The Bird of Paradise discuss the implications of this. Guan's been around for 1500 years and The Bird of Paradise hinted to be at least a millennia.
* Kira and Righteous play dangerous games to keep their existence interesting in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' ContinuationFic ''FanFic/{{Depravare}}''.
* The Legendaries in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fanfic ''FanFic/{{Forsaken}}''.
* Miser in the '' VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fic ''FanFic/FutureGenerations'', who is 'blessed' with immortality and looking for a way out of it.
* Certainly the case for Vivio of the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] fic ''[[FanFic/GameTheoryLyricalNanoha The Bitter End]]'', who has probably the longest lifespan of the cast, with projected lifetime outpacing everyone else's by as much as half a century.
* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/GenderConfusion'', [[spoiler:Hidan begs Jashin to set things right and remove his immortality so he could die with his beloved. Jashin obliges.]]
* The premise of the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' fanfic ''FanFic/ImmortalitySyndrome''.
* In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] ''FanFic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'', it's stated by Yukari that one of the reasons why she's the jaded, cynical ManipulativeBitch she is is actually this.
* In the ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' ContinuationFic ''FanFic/LillyEpilogueFamilyMatters'', Hisao has this thought as Hanako plays a video game with an immortal hero. He doesn’t want to [[MayflyDecemberRomance outlive his loved ones]], but wonders whether it would free him from worrying about his heart condition, which also discusses RequiredSecondaryPowers.
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fanfic ''FanFic/LowLight'', [[spoiler: Rem wants to die but the Shinigami King won't let her.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfic ''FanFic/MyHostageNotYours'', [[spoiler: Zim warns Gaz about this when he gives her a pill that slows down her aging process so she would live as long as he does, but she doesn't really start thinking about the ramifications until afterwards. This then becomes a moot point when she gives Dib the pill as well, so she won't be outliving him.]]
* Rachel of the ''Videogame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'' fanfic ''FanFic/OnStrangeWings'' briefly touches on this in an early conversation with Hakumen.

* {{Discussed|Trope}} briefly by 419 and 426 in the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''[=/=]''Franchise/StarTrek'' crossover ''[[FanFic/StarlightSeries Starlight]]''. 426 postulates that perhaps mortality is for the best, so people don't get too cynical. 419, on the other hand, [[LivingForeverIsAwesome couldn't imagine such a thing]] because TheWorldIsJustAwesome.
* The central theme of the ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4497208/1/Matters_of_Time Matters of Time]]'', in which Viral finds himself bestowed with immortality.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheLastHuman'', while not a particularly prevalent theme in-story, as Marceline's attitude seems to lean more towards LivingForeverIsAwesome, a rather nasty moment from her is revealed to be the result of her father trying to convince her [[MayflyDecemberRomance that trying to romance Finn is a bad idea]], alluding to his own time with her mother. She and Finn make up, but she implies a fair bit that her inevitable outliving of Finn and their friends is a source of a lot of grief for her.
* Ryouko's grandpa feels this way in the ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' fic ''FanFic/ToTheStars''. Some of the "ancient" magical girls do, too; especially Homura, who [[spoiler:may be stuck with CompleteImmortality.]]

* In the ''Franchise/{{Warcraft}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland'', Destron's not worried about this, since he figures that his adventurous lifestyle will kill him before immortality gets too boring.
* The ''Film/TronLegacy'' fic ''[[http://humansrsuperior.livejournal.com/172855.html Old Habits Die Hard]]'' deals with this topic in relation to Sam.
* Subverted in the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' fanfic ''FanFic/UndocumentedFeatures'' -- his loved ones decide to get the immortality treatment as well. Then the people who care about ''them'', until ''every single Wedge Rat'' is immortal. As are their descendants.
** Played somewhat straight in ''Aegis Florea 2'' when [[spoiler:Sumire]] is revealed to have, as a result of a combination of this Trope, VictoryIsBoring and [[spoiler:her own unrequited love for Gryphon]], spent the previous forty years in the throes of a HeroicBSOD until [[spoiler:Kei]] reboots her with a WhatTheHellHero[=/=]TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that is so scathing and insulting that she cannot help but to rouse from her self-imposed emotional stupor and get angry.
* Porky in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WhatGoesOn'' doesn't seem to have a problem with it, but everyone else can clearly see that it's not a great state to be in. And the only reason he bugs them is because he's bored, a major complication of this trope.
* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/YetAgainWithALittleExtraHelp'', the Oogakari suffer from this.
* The ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfic [[http://twispitefic.livejournal.com/39716.html ''Revelations'']] has Bella realize some time after ''Breaking Dawn'' that immortality and being a vampire is not what it's cracked up to be for the usual reasons of this trope (friends and family all die, boredom, etc) as well as come to [[JerkassRealization realize]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone how terrible]] she was towards her human friends and family and wishing desperately for a second chance to make things right. Carlisle himself also admits that he sometimes wishes he could pass on, only staying alive for the sake of helping others and being there for his family.

* In the Fanfic/TranscendenceAU for ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Dipper becomes a demon, and his view on his immortality is constantly changing between this and LivingForeverIsAwesome.
* ''Sailor Moon: Legends of Lightstorm'': While Sailor Jupiter seems excited about living forever, Jason seems unenthused about it. Granted, it may or may not have something to do with losing his powers, since all Sailor Scouts and Justice Champions are biologically immortal whether or not they transform.

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/4629198/chapters/10822022 Say a Prayer]]'' a Gringotts cursebreaker comments that all the Egyptian wizards who tried for immortality became mindless mummies and that the traps in their tombs are as much to keep them ''in'' as to keep everybody else ''out''.
-->'''Sheldon:''' Mad revenants, locked away in tombs, in the dark, for thousands of years, because they couldn't be allowed to roam free. If there's any part of the wizards still in them I couldn't tell you. Poor bastards. I'll bet you every last one wishes they'd never even considered it. I very much doubt thousands of years imprisoned in a dark, airless tomb is what they thought of when they decided to live forever.
* ''Fanfic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': Late in the sequel ''The Mare From the Moon'', Spliced Genome begins to really hate her immortality. [[spoiler: After years of promising to turn her mortal, those in charge admit that they lost the process to render her mortal again. This only furthers her growing depression.]]
* Both oneshots ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9638917/1/Time-Passes Time Passes]]'' and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10034019/1/Prisoner-of-Time Prisoners of Time]]'' revolve around Rapunzel being immortal. Decades pass, Eugene and eventually even their descendants start dying, yet she doesn't age past 18. Rapunzel tries to kill herself but it doesn't work. She spends the next several decades trying to find ways to die, but none work. She doesn't die until millenia later, when the sun finally goes out.
* All-but-explicitly stated in the ''Fanfic/InfinityCrisis'' story ''Of Kryptonians and Queens'', when [[spoiler:Jason Blood notes that Morgana can't threaten him with death as he'd actually welcome it]].
* Both Tonks and Fleur in ''Fanfic/ForLoveOfMagic'' eventually come to regret their immortality due to watching their descendants grow old and die while they stay in their prime. After a few centuries, they stop taking the Elixir of Life and allow themselves to die. Luna chooses not to because doing so would leave Harry alone.
** In the [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13034223/15/A-Discordant-Note sequel]], Harry admits that he and Adrastia are [[LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal fine with eternal life]] because they're both sociopaths whereas Luna can handle it because she's mastered living solely in the present. On the other hand, Harry's new mortal wives start drifting away from him as they age due to not wanting to be reminded that he'll go on living while they wither and die, nor do they want to live while their children die. According to Harry, trying to keep his entire extended family immortal resulted in most of them dying off at once when the centuries got too much to bear.
* Xanna (the Nine Tails) carried this belief for a long time in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9920512/1/Reaching-for-a-Dream Reaching for a Dream]]'' due to her loneliness. Once she and Naruto ascend to godhood, her attitude changes to LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal out of faith that when they get bored with eternity, Naruto will find a way to kill them both.
* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', Baby Smurf comes from Smurfling Island, where nobody ages, as also do the Smurflings with the exception of Sassette, who came from a CrystalPrison. It is presumed that whoever lives on that island has their aging forever locked at a certain age, which is why when Baby Smurf first appears in the Smurf Village, he is no more than a day old despite probably being older than that. At first the parents of the child want Baby Smurf be brought back, but after Smurfette's letter being written to them explaining how terrible it would be to condemn a Baby Smurf to living forever without ever aging to become an older Smurf, the parents realize the wisdom in Smurfette's statement and thus allow Baby Smurf to stay in the Smurf Village forever to be able to grow up.
* The Disney Princess fanfic ''Fanfic/OldAndGraceful'' sequel features [[spoiler: Meg being distraught that Hercules died before her, so when he sends down a magical flower that gives her youth in order to have a second chance, she misuses its powers so that she lives for millennia. She becomes Mother Gothel when she can barely remember her old name and living for so long, being horribly dependent on the flower causes her to live a miserable existence. By the time she kidnaps Rapunzel it's debatable as to whether she wants to live any more.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'': Loopers are stuck in a random, varying series of time loops, occasionally crossing over with other worlds. There is no escape whatsoever, and the oldest loopers have been going for ''millions'' of years. While they typically decide LivingForeverIsAwesome eventually, it takes a while. In particular, who is Awake varies with each loop (except for the Anchor, who is Awake for every loop), meaning that often times their closest friends and loved ones will essentially disappear for a few centuries, and they have to pretend everything is fine.
-->'''[[Fanfic/TheMLPLoops Twilight Sparkle]]:''' I think that is the root of a lot of madness among Loopers. Offer Dash nothing? Gilda, she has hope of seeing her friend now, not an endless parade of someone wearing your face that can't remember the real her anymore.
* ''Fanfic/RingMaker'': Arc 14 reveals that [[spoiler: the Witch King of Angmar actually survived having his body destroyed at Pelennor; his soul was bound to his ring, and that was just left to sit in the field. By the time he finally managed to regain a physical form, Gondor, Rohan, and all the other Kingdoms of Middle Earth were long gone, so there was nothing left for him to do but just... linger on, watching from the ruins of Mordor (modern-day Yellowstone) as the world had moved on from him, well into the modern day. By the time the reincarnate [[TheAtoner Mairon]] finds him, he's just an exhausted, weary old man, whose only wish is to finally be allowed to pass on from this world, to which she immediately agrees]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2247935/1/The-Only-Thing-Worse-Than-Dying The Only Thing Worse Than Dying]]'' examines the fact that Stitch has a ''very'' prolonged lifespan due to being [[NighInvulnerability almost completely indestructible]]. Stitch fears that he would eventually outlive Lilo and attempts to make her hate him so he wouldn't have to endure such pain. Lilo, however, makes it clear that, nobody how long Stitch lives, she'll always be with him.

* ''In Fanfic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland'', the undead narrator isn't worried about this, because he's pretty sure he'll be killed exploring some hellhole before the endless years get to him.