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* Anu from [[Empire From the Ashes]] has 6000 {{spoiler|unwilling/unreliable}} accomplices in cryogenic stasis, and whenever his current body (or those of his subordinates) is getting old, has himself brain-transplanted into another. The subordinates have to make do with {{spoiler|abducted humans}}, though. {{spoiler|The displaced brains are incinerated.}}
* In ''[[Wild Cards]]'', an entire arc revolves around Jumpers: people who have an ability to switch souls around. Some people only jump themselves, some only switch others, some can do both, et cetera (one minor character gets an ability to bestow the power on others via sex, but can't jump or be jumped himself). Apart from using that for immortality, some rich Jokers (hideously deformed monstrosities, 9% of those who caught the Wild card virus) hire jumpers to switch with someone attractive.
* In Lupin III: The Secret of Mamo, {{spoiler|Mamo's method of immortality is making clones of himself; since he cloned his own mind perfectly, he always thought to carry on this operation. His plan hits a snag, though, as every clone is lacking in some way or another, and so eventually a newly made clone would be left with no value of life at all. In one dub Mamo even states: "The price is high for eternal life..." }}
* Doro from Octavia Butler's ''Patternmaster'' novels has no particular resistance to injury or disease, but every time he dies his soul jumps into the body of the nearest person, killing the body's original owner. Even though this is involuntary, [[Bad Powers, Bad People|six thousand years of body-stealing has given him very little regard for human life or human dignity]].