This video will list the people who either themselves claim to be immortal or claimed
by others to be immortal. None in this list is a spiritual entity such as god, artificial
life such as robots or even non-humans such as monsters or animals.
5. Leonard Jones He was an accentric man claiming that he was
immortal. According to him, mortality is just something brought upon one's self and that
it can be avoided through a regimen of prayer and fasting.
He came to believe that he was immortal when he met a preacher who preached that "man by
faith can live forever". Though the preacher died, Jones still believed in his faith and
went on with his life by becoming a politician that kept on running for presidency of the
united states by claiming that he was immortal and people should believe in his faith so
that they could also become immortal. But in 1868, Jones caught pneumonia. Refusing
treatment believing that his sickness was due to his lack of faith and by strengthening
his faith he would be cured, he soon died because of it at the age of 71.
4. Keanu Reeves Though he never said it himself but some hopeful
fans and the media kept saying that he is immortal. This is because he doesn't seem
to age and there are old photos from the 19th century that shows a man of similar features
who was known as Paul Mounet. So this is Paul Mounet from the year 1875.
Then this is Keanu Reeves in 2015. Putting them by side. Do you see the similarities?
Here are more of Keanu Reeves throughout the years.
This man aged really well by aging very little. I wonder if its his niceness that is
the source of his youth?
3. Count Of St Germain Almost the same as Keanu Reeves in that, he
doesn't seem to age. He is very mysterious even to people of his time because he kept
on making different stories when asked about his origin. So no one knows his real age or
even where his wealth comes from. Count of St Germain has always looked like
he was 40+ years old in between the 40 years he was in europe. He likes to dine (quote
unquote) with friends and would be seen talking from start to end because he enjoyed their
company, but it was rare to see him eat anything on the table because it was said he only eats
his own food which consists of something similar to oatmeal.
There are accounts from distinguished people such as Casanova, Voltaire, King Louis the
15th, madame de pompadour and more who said that he was a man who knows everything, hes
very mysterious and always youthful. St Germain was very involved in alchemy, prescribing
people his anti-wrinkle potions and even hair dye. This could be the secret to his youth
or the secret could be in the jewels that he would always be adorned with from head
to toe. His death was recorded in 1784, but there
were no real personal belongings left in his estate at the time of his death like his jeweleries
or even his violin. A few years after his death, there were accounts of meetings with
someone resembling Saint Germain throughout the years with the most recent one being in
1972. Is he really immortal and just living a quiet life right now? Or is it just because
he has a common face?
2. Nicolas Flamel You might know that name from Harry Potter
or other fiction books out there but Nicolas was not an alchemist but he was a succesful
scribe and manuscript seller. He lived a rich life being a wealthy scribe and got married
to Perenelle who was also rich from her 2 previous marriages. Thus this couple lived
a wealthy life which in the later years of their life was known for their philanthropy.
Nicolas lived until his 80s, he managed to design his own tombstone and 8 years later
died in 1418. There was no indication of him doing any alchemy at all, at least not until
1612 where an alchemical book was published in Paris about Flamel searching for the philospher's
stone. In the book, Nicolas and his wife were believed
to have attained a way to make the philosopher's stone which if used right could make base
metals into gold or even more important, can make one immortal.
Some believe that Nicolas and his wife became immortal and faked their deaths while others
believe that it was just a publisher's tactic to sell more books.
1. Self Mummifying Monks Some Buddhist monks in Mongolia, China and
North Japan had a spiritual practice that slowly mummifies one's self in order to attain
enlightenment. But in North Japan specifically in the Yamagata Prefecture, between the 11
and 19th century, they believed that this practice was a path to immortality called
sokushinbutsu, where rather than death, they are believed to be in a dead like meditative
trance. To attain their immortality, they only eat
nuts and grains to remove all the fat in their body and drink tea made from the urushi tree
sap which is actually extremely toxic and usually used to varnish furniture. Finally,
when they're already sticks and bones they go in a coffin which has a hole for breathing
and a bell for indication that the monk is still aware of their surroundings. In the
coffin they would meditate in the lotus position until they are in a meditative trance.
Then after 1000 days of no bell rings, the coffin is then reopened to see the condition
of the monk. If the monk is fully mummified then it is believed that they have attained
immortality while those who did not succeed were just praised for their courage and determination.