Poul Anderson's Hugh Valland has lived for three thousand years.
Anderson's Hanno plans to rendezvous with his fellow immortals in another million years.
James Blish's John Amalfi lives until the end of the universe which, for narrative convenience, comes sooner than expected.
Death has agreed not to take Neil Gaiman's Hob Gadling until he wants it.
These are not the only fictional immortals but they are the five that I am most familiar with.
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Kaor, Paul!
I can see advances in meditechnology possibly extending, somewhat, human life spans. But not the kind of "antithanatic" seen in WORLD WITHOUT STARS or genetic "immortalizing" accidents we see in THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS as being very LIKELY. But they do make for interesting thought experiments and stories by Anderson, so I am glad he wrote them.
The antisenescence of the Technic stories, which could, at its maximum, extend good health and life spans to about age 120, was always far more plausible to me.
Ad astra! Sean
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