> Some sci fi suggests Jonathon Swift explored this idea in 1726, in Gulliver's Travels, with the Struldbruggs [0] - decrepit immortals. Struldbruggs also popp

> Some sci fi suggests Jonathon Swift explored this idea in 1726, in Gulliver's Travels, with the Struldbruggs [0] - decrepit immortals. Struldbruggs also popped up in Larry Niven's Known Space universe [1], albeit there as the name of a club for the old and powerful (IIRC with an increasing minimum age to keep out the young whippersnappers). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struldbrugg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struldbrugg [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Ptavvs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Ptavvs