5,000 years of trying

The Immortality Archive

Humans have been trying to defeat death for almost as long as we've been alive. None of them have been successful. These are their stories

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The Frontier
Ethel Caterham
116 years
Currently further into life than any other human · The all-time record falls 2 February 2032, if she holds

From the archive

210 BC
Qin Shi Huang
The most powerful man alive drank mercury because someone told him it was the key to eternal life.
1928
Alexander Bogdanov
He believed swapping blood with the young would keep him alive forever. His twelfth transfusion killed him.
1967
James Bedford
A dying professor bet everything on being frozen, and 59 years later he is still waiting to wake up.

The attempts so far

~109,000,000,000
humans have ever lived
93%
of them are dead
122 yrs, 164 days
the longest anyone has managed
100%
mortality rate — it has never moved