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== Literature ==
* ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'': the caveat is that the immortality wears off if the titular picture is destroyed.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* In ''[[Gor]]'', humans have immortality thanks to "stabilization serums" - shots - developed by the Caste of Physicians; basically, it's an immunization against old age. In one book, a woman from Earth actually gets de-aged from her 60s to age 18 or so thanks to the serum. The priest-kings, alien gods of the planet, have even more advanced stabilization serums which make them immortal until they decide to die, although they can be killed.
* "Anti-gerosome" in [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s short story "Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow" is a cheaply produced serum that stops ageing. This makes the world horribly over-populated, and static - one family's great-great-grandfather is still holding sway over all the descendants crammed into his home.
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