Immortal

Immortality is a concept of life without decay, corruption, destruction, or death.

Immortality refers to a continued life in some form which one might enjoy. In Eastern traditions and religions, it is soul immortality (one's 'soul' survives). Not confused with eternal life in the Biblical sense.

Immortality, Immortal or Immortals may also refer to:

People

• Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, a group of medieval Japanese poets
• Immortals (French: immortels), members of the Académie française
• The Immortals (rugby league), a group of Australia's best Rugby League players
• Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC, found the Fountain of Youth and started soaking his chicken in the water there before cooking it.
• Immortal Guards, including:
  • The Persian Immortals, existing in Persia under the Achaemenean dynasty
  • Immortals (Byzantine), established under the Byzantine emperor Michael VII
  • The Immortals, the Iranian Imperial Guard, existing in Persia and Iran in the 20th century under the Pahlavi dynasty
  • The Immortals, Nihang warriors or Sikh Akalis who have played the pivotal role in Sikh military history
• List of people who have claimed to be immortal

Legendary or religious figures

• Eight Immortals of Taoism
• Immortals, immortal gods, including most on this list of deities

Forms of immortality

• Biological immortality
• Immortal DNA strand hypothesis

Entertainment

• Immortality in fiction

Film and television

• The Immortal (TV series), a 1970–1971 American television series
• Immortal (Highlander), sword-wielding characters from the Highlander film and television series
• The Immortal (Buffyverse), a character in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe
• The Immortal (Canadian TV series), a 2000–2001 Canadian television series
• Immortel (Ad Vitam), a 2004 film by Enki Bilal, titled Immortal in English
• The Immortals (soldiers of the Persian Empire under Xerxes), in the 2007 film 300.

Music

Artists and labels

• Immortal (band), a Norwegian black metal musical group
• Immortal Technique, a hip-hop MC and political activist
• Immortal Records, a record label
• The Immortals (band), a Belgian techno group

Albums

• Immortal (Cynthia Clawson album), a 1986 release
• Immortal (album), the 1996 debut by Beth Hart
• Immortal (Pyramaze album), a 2008 release
• Immortal (Cryonic Temple album), a 2008 release by Cryonic Temple

Songs

• "Immortality" (Pearl Jam song), a 1995 single on the album Vitalogy
• "Immortality" (Celine Dion song), a 1998 single on the album Let's Talk About Love
• "Immortal", a song by Clutch on the 2001 album Pure Rock Fury
• "Immortal", a song by Adema on the 2002 EP Insomniac's Dream
• "My Immortal", a song by Evanescence on the 2003 album Fallen
• "Immortal", a song by The Rasmus on the 2005 album Hide from the Sun
• "Immortal", a 2008 single by The Crüxshadows
• "Land of immortals", a song by the Italian Power Metal band Rhapsody Of Fire.
• "Knight of immortal fire", a song by Luca Turilli

Literature

• "The Immortal", a 1949 short story by Jorge Luis Borges
• Immortal (Buffy novel), a 1999 Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelization by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
• The Immortals (Grey Griffins novel), fourth book of the Grey Griffins series by Derek Benz and J. S. Lewis, announced for 2009 release
• Immortals (anthology), a 1998 anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• Immortality (novel), a 1990 novel by Milan Kundera.

Comics

• The Immortal (Invincible), an Image Comics superhero character
• Immortal (comics), a 2006 online graphic novel by Dean Haspiel

Games

• Immortal Game, a chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen against Lionel Kieseritzky
• The Immortal (computer game), a 1990 isometric action-adventure game
• Immortal: Invisible War, a role playing game by Ran Ackels first published in 1994 by Precedence Entertainment
• Necron Immortals, a unit in Warhammer 40,000
• Protoss Immortals, a biomechanical unit in Starcraft 2

See also

• Lahn al-Kholood, a.k.a Immortal Song, an Egyptian 1952 romance film
• The Immortals, a disambiguation page
• Immortel, a disambiguation page