Timeline for What is the origin of the "being immortal sucks" trope?
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| Sep 18, 2019 at 17:34 | comment | added | mtraceur | +1 for noticing the distinction between "individual immortality sucks" and "all immortality sucks", regardless of the applicability to exactly the intended question. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 21:58 | comment | added | Spencer | @slebetman That's certainly one interpretation. However, OP hasn't made what they wanted completely clear just yet. We'll probably just have to wait for an answer to be accepted. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 21:53 | comment | added | slebetman | @Spencer Technically the question ask about one person (someone) feeling that being immortal sucks. It's OK if the entire population is immortal and it's awesome for them as long as one person feels it sucks - so the ancient mythology have you beat | |
| Sep 16, 2019 at 14:48 | comment | added | gbjbaanb | @T.J.Crowder if those silly old Atlanteans couldn't be bothered to get waterproof paper, then they deserve for Aeschylus to take credit for their stories! | |
| Sep 16, 2019 at 10:07 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | @gbjbaanb - And the Greeks may well have just been the first to write them down... :-) | |
| Sep 16, 2019 at 9:55 | comment | added | gbjbaanb | Swift knew his Greek, so the Struldbruggs would have absolutely been derived from Tithonus. Everything isn't like everything else... everything is like the original Greek. | |
| Sep 16, 2019 at 7:56 | comment | added | Jemox | Your exemple of the Struldbruggs is exactly the same than Tithonus where they are immortal but still grow old. | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 23:24 | history | edited | Spencer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 15, 2019 at 22:31 | comment | added | Spencer | @NathanGriffiths There's nothing in the question that specifies it either way. | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 21:58 | comment | added | user22478 | There's nothing in the question that specifies this is about immortality "sucking in general" or just for an individual. Gulliver's Travels is a good example from modern literature but the trope is definitely much older than that. | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 18:37 | history | edited | Spencer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 15, 2019 at 15:30 | history | answered | Spencer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |