Cheating Death: Top 10 Ways People Have Tried To Live Forever

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  • No one lives forever, but that didn't stop these people from trying. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most ridiculous or extreme lengths people throughout history have gone to as a means of extending their lifespans. Our countdown of the craziest ways people have tried to live forever includes Pope Innocent VIII, Sam Altman, Elizabeth Báthory, and more! What lengths would you be willing to go to ensure you lived forever? Let us know in the comments below!
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  • @WatchMojo
    @WatchMojo  4 місяці тому +19

    What lengths would you be willing to go to ensure you lived forever? Let us know in the comments below!
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    • @Jeremiah_Rivers76
      @Jeremiah_Rivers76 4 місяці тому +2

      I wouldn’t want to live forever knowing the downsides. Wouldn’t those in whatever positive afterlife they believe in eventually get bored?

    • @mikeburkhart8336
      @mikeburkhart8336 4 місяці тому +4

      I will except my Death when it's my time. Immortal is a foolish goal. What are you going to do when the universe becomes uninhabitable for life?

    • @alyzu4755
      @alyzu4755 4 місяці тому

      I don't want to live forever.

    • @Leto85
      @Leto85 4 місяці тому +1

      No length at all.
      If it turns out to be true that the universe will end in the heatdeath where nothing is left I definitely do not want to be the last one standing.
      I think I'll rather die today than live forever.

    • @Leto85
      @Leto85 4 місяці тому +1

      Besides, immortality without invulnerability is a curse.

  • @villain5873
    @villain5873 4 місяці тому +32

    2:26 They weren't blood " donors" that implies volunteering, they were victims.
    Also his name was " Innocent" how ironic.

  • @scottbakanumba1heathen313
    @scottbakanumba1heathen313 4 місяці тому +21

    Darth Plagueis the expert on that - kinda.

  • @mrcheesemunch
    @mrcheesemunch 4 місяці тому +14

    I absolutely love that billionaire dude who thinks he's going to beat ageing, dude just go to therapy, you're gonna get old and die like the rest of us
    He reckons that at 40 or whatever he has the body of an 18 year old and yet he looks like a 40 year old man still, lol

  • @joeb.evrythngEclectic5571
    @joeb.evrythngEclectic5571 4 місяці тому +88

    the cold hard fact is NO one can beat death!

  • @AndreaDoesYoga
    @AndreaDoesYoga 4 місяці тому +22

    Wow, people's survival instincts are insane! 😲👏

  • @mikeburkhart8336
    @mikeburkhart8336 4 місяці тому +6

    A waste of time...the Grim Reaper will always come for you when your time is up. Death is part of the package deal with Life.

  • @thealextrifier
    @thealextrifier 4 місяці тому +11

    They really should watch Puss in Boots the Last Wish before laughing in the face of death

    • @janette2691
      @janette2691 4 місяці тому +1

      That movie was awesome. It made me cried more than once

  • @christigmc
    @christigmc 4 місяці тому +18

    It’s more important to add life to your years than years to your life.
    That being said. Assuming all these exercises, pills, procedures etc. actually extend your life. To what degree do they stop you from living your life? Is the extra 50 to 100 years worth losing some of life’s guilty pleasures? Just saying.

    • @mrcheesemunch
      @mrcheesemunch 4 місяці тому +2

      Exactly. We should all live healthy but spending 90% of your day taking pills and having massages and whatnot because you're terrified of dying just means you're living 10% of a life.
      It's stupid too because some smokers live to 100, some athletes die at 50. There is no surefire way to live as long as humanly possible no matter what crap you put in your body. My nans friend got to 96 and basically all she ever ate was pies and cake.

    • @christigmc
      @christigmc 4 місяці тому

      @@mrcheesemunch plus sometimes one is taken off this earth by some unfortunate accident. When I was 22 3 if my friends died in 3 separate accidents within a 6 month time period. The first 2 were 3 weeks apart. We all need to look forward to the future but we must also remember to live in the present and realize there may not be a tomorrow

  • @matthewpaul6904
    @matthewpaul6904 4 місяці тому +7

    The problem is with the invasive medical procedures and restricting your diet to IVs and vitamins, does it matter anymore that your life is extended?

  • @billybobjoe1335
    @billybobjoe1335 4 місяці тому +4

    Those who wish to escape death will often find themselves visited by it sooner than they think.

  • @Manicies
    @Manicies 4 місяці тому +13

    Seeing stuff like this reminds of a line I've seen before...."aging isn't one tenth as scary as the shit people do to try and avoid it"

  • @matildamarmaduke1096
    @matildamarmaduke1096 4 місяці тому +9

    Ive never understood the wanting to live 4ever

    • @lapisgaming6093
      @lapisgaming6093 4 місяці тому +5

      It's the fear of the unknown. We don't know what happens after life but eventually you kinda accept it as you age.

    • @23ultimatemaster
      @23ultimatemaster 4 місяці тому +1

      They have a good life and want to keep it

  • @DavidAnthony211
    @DavidAnthony211 4 місяці тому +5

    In Death there are no accidents no coincidences no mishaps and no escapes..
    In other words, you can't cheat Death.

  • @T0jiFushigur0
    @T0jiFushigur0 4 місяці тому +9

    In 100 years these will all be memes

  • @JohnnyNiteTrain
    @JohnnyNiteTrain 4 місяці тому +6

    The Young Pope was awesome. Jude Law crushes it. Also, one of the best intros to a show ever.

  • @ericsilberstein667
    @ericsilberstein667 4 місяці тому +11

    Death is a part of life.

  • @joshuamohlman
    @joshuamohlman 4 місяці тому +5

    “Is it possible to learn these powers?”

    • @cillcamst2
      @cillcamst2 4 місяці тому +3

      Not from a Jedi.

  • @BlenderStudy
    @BlenderStudy 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! 9:28 I wonder how she came up with that idea in the first place. 🥶

  • @Blucity07
    @Blucity07 4 місяці тому +8

    So basically: what insane things that people in power would do to keep said power."

  • @chitambomwape1389
    @chitambomwape1389 4 місяці тому +3

    Number 4 screams Pantheon

  • @firstname__lastname
    @firstname__lastname 4 місяці тому +1

    The irony is that Bryan Johnson looks even older than 45 😂. His hair is giving box dye from CVS

  • @stratman103
    @stratman103 4 місяці тому +4

    Can’t I just be bitten by a vampire?

  • @GabrielAlarcon99986
    @GabrielAlarcon99986 4 місяці тому

    No matter what the death is inevitable always plus
    Death smiles at us all, the best we can do is smile back.

  • @rockerdowns6051
    @rockerdowns6051 4 місяці тому +1

    I have lived long enough to realize that at some point your actually kinda looking forward to it.

  • @kennyboggs3676
    @kennyboggs3676 17 днів тому

    Queen sang it best in the movie "Highlander" "who wants to live forever?"

  • @patricknisius7457
    @patricknisius7457 4 місяці тому +1

    Really a tough theme. I myself often think about death. I kinda wanna live longer to see what happens with the world but i also wanna know what death is like. It just interests me to see those things for myself, What will the world be like? What's going to happen to us? Will there be Kemonomimi in our future? Or What is the feeling of death? Are you really gone? is there some sort of afterlife? Do you simply loose all your memories and get reborn? All those questions are questions i ask myself like once a week. But ain't a way in hell I'm gonna take like 7000 Supplements a day. I'd be eating all day every day on those.

  • @grumpyoldwizard
    @grumpyoldwizard 4 місяці тому +4

    When I was 40 people thought I was in my early 20's. I often had to show my drivers liscense to prove my age. That's genetic. All of the men in my family look young when they are older.

    • @bones642
      @bones642 4 місяці тому

      Yeah I was turned down for cigarettes once. But that was ages ago lol and one guy thought I was using a relatives id and asked what school I go to. Another one said he’d be my hookup anytime LOL. Like it was a favor to sell a 30 something a pack of cheap beer. That was when I didn’t have a hubby or responsibilities though. All the drinking caught up though. Now it’s just the standard Id scan they do to anyone.

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary 4 місяці тому

    2:40 Hey! It's Ozymandias, from Watchmen

  • @raycenteno7698
    @raycenteno7698 4 місяці тому +1

    At the end. Death claims us all.

  • @ironknight16
    @ironknight16 4 місяці тому

    Bryan johnson i will aggree to some of it notion which diet and training but the amount of perscription is obserd

  • @eddiem5713
    @eddiem5713 4 місяці тому

    i'll never understand people who want to live longer
    even after finding someone who makes life worth living, i still don't feel very strongly about living a long life
    maybe they see life very differently than others do
    or maybe i just have an overly negative perception of life for someone m age

  • @endoetz
    @endoetz 4 місяці тому

    Bryan Johnson, I'm only 2 years younger than you and have never had any of the expensive therapy you do, and yet I still look 10 years younger than you.

  • @kingmickey666
    @kingmickey666 4 місяці тому

    How many years they waste to try to live longer. Ironic.

  • @TSMO915
    @TSMO915 4 місяці тому

    7:15 Thank to the horror video game SOMA it’s somehow possible.
    Edit 10:23 I wasn’t aware that ‘Castle Arrest’ is even possible.

  • @janette2691
    @janette2691 4 місяці тому

    Number 4 sounds like that batman beyond episode

  • @DTL32
    @DTL32 4 місяці тому +1

    Collect all 7 dragon balls 🤷🏾‍♂️

  • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
    @user-gi8pk9uc7q 4 місяці тому +1

    Qin Shi Huangdi died of mercury poisoning because he thought it would make him immortal!

  • @bernardomello842
    @bernardomello842 4 місяці тому

    I barely want to live this life…I would never want to live forever

  • @prithibiishrak540
    @prithibiishrak540 4 місяці тому

    Gave like cause of Arthurs Tuberculosis
    Makes me wanna play red dead redemption again :'(

  • @apoorvbelsare9594
    @apoorvbelsare9594 4 місяці тому +1

    how voldemorty of them

  • @PaiviProject
    @PaiviProject 4 місяці тому

    Wow.

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary 4 місяці тому

    100 daily supplements? Dude, that doesn't sound healthy. That's not good for your kidneys, probably

  • @1GGstube
    @1GGstube 4 місяці тому

    Why isn't there a Pope Innocent movie? He sounds like a fascinating monster

  • @introvertsrock9843
    @introvertsrock9843 4 місяці тому

    Dr Mike should give his take on these methods....

  • @thefunnychiptuneman
    @thefunnychiptuneman 4 місяці тому

    death comes for us all - 1990 master splinter

  • @zachtwilightwindwaker596
    @zachtwilightwindwaker596 4 місяці тому +1

    He would drink the blood of children. I eat little babies. It keeps me young. There's nothing innocent about this pope.
    8:56 I remember this series. I was laughing at how over the top it was.
    9:28 Isn't that the antagonist in Castlevania Bloodlines?

  • @yrnkevinsmithC-137
    @yrnkevinsmithC-137 4 місяці тому

    "This is why i be so freash, im trying to beat life coz i cant cheat death" jayz

  • @davinp
    @davinp 4 місяці тому

    People are looking to stay young forever

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher
    @MariaMartinez-researcher 4 місяці тому

    The story about the pope does not appear in any reliable source. Where did you get it?

    • @gevorg1989
      @gevorg1989 4 місяці тому

      I was surprised it was a YT channel they quoted and not some documentary that aired on a historical channel

  • @ReesesCupsAreGood
    @ReesesCupsAreGood 4 місяці тому

    Once sin entered the world, there's nothing we can do. We can be healthier and live longer. That's all we can really do.

  • @myelite100
    @myelite100 4 місяці тому +1

    Not with all the money in this world can stop death it’s something that is going to happen to us all fact

  • @bernardomello842
    @bernardomello842 4 місяці тому

    I'm 168 years old, and my secret is pizza and ice cream.

  • @SirsasthNigam.
    @SirsasthNigam. 4 місяці тому

    Qin Shi Huang tops for consuming Cinnabar

  • @darenbuton7599
    @darenbuton7599 4 місяці тому

    Why would you want to deprive yourself of the sweet release of Death

  • @opaljessthegothdragon
    @opaljessthegothdragon 4 місяці тому

    Immortality is certainly not a good idea, because nothing will be exciting in the world as you age with it without dying. Can’t we just invent something that keeps our youth instead? We still die but we could at least look young throughout life.

  • @renashaval3246
    @renashaval3246 4 місяці тому +1

    “Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the Garden, has triumphed. The life of this world is only the enjoyment of delusion.” (Quran, 3:185)

    • @TheHIOJK
      @TheHIOJK 4 місяці тому +1

      "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 Thank you Jesus

  • @dalekkgames5430
    @dalekkgames5430 4 місяці тому

    They had to show Arthur Morgan :( RIP

  • @ludicrous7044
    @ludicrous7044 3 місяці тому

    Sounds like a bunch of vampires to me!!⚰️🧟‍♀️

  • @daphneloose5880
    @daphneloose5880 4 місяці тому +1

    if I wanted immortality I would want to be bitten by a vampire.

  • @ofraggy8428
    @ofraggy8428 4 місяці тому

    I've heard orphan tears work

  • @fareedosman516
    @fareedosman516 3 місяці тому

    "O My servants who have believed! Truly My earth is spacious, so worship Me alone! Every soul shall taste death, then to Us you will be returned." Qur'an 29:56-57

  • @amberturner2821
    @amberturner2821 4 місяці тому

    6:08 wow spoilers /s

  • @crimsonmoonrise9785
    @crimsonmoonrise9785 4 місяці тому

    Has anyone tried vampirism or selling their soul to the devil?

  • @Mike.Hunt.
    @Mike.Hunt. 4 місяці тому +4

    A lot of stupid people is all I’m seeing 😢

  • @ralphleonardo7807
    @ralphleonardo7807 4 місяці тому

    do you fear death jack sparrow?
    davy jones

  • @davinp
    @davinp 4 місяці тому

    In the 1993 movie Hocus Pocus, the witches wanted to consume the lives of children so that they could be young and beautiful forever

  • @EpicGrantz
    @EpicGrantz 4 місяці тому

    Have these fools never heard of Shiv Palpatine?

  • @SSJvegito501
    @SSJvegito501 4 місяці тому

    Most of these are blood related. Not sure why that is scary.

  • @gevorg1989
    @gevorg1989 4 місяці тому +1

    No. 3: you didn't mention the years
    The Pope: do historians validate the transfusion history? Is quoted YT channel scientific and trustworthy?

  • @Mean-Z86
    @Mean-Z86 4 місяці тому

    Immortality is a curse.

  • @actualartist3082
    @actualartist3082 4 місяці тому +1

    Take a shot every time he horribly mispronounces Elizabeth Bathory’s name… good fucking lord

  • @roywilliams660
    @roywilliams660 4 місяці тому

    OK so way blizzard I see.

  • @70s80s
    @70s80s 4 місяці тому

    They all sound like SNAKE OIL!

  • @fitzspringer8617
    @fitzspringer8617 4 місяці тому +1

    Repentance and baptism in Jesus name and walking in a newness of life ensures immortality

  • @jaredekelman4229
    @jaredekelman4229 4 місяці тому

    Life in This Sick Twisted Miserable World is Not Worth That Much! Especially if You Take into Account the Wonderful Life that is Waiting Beyond the Grave, if You Believe in That Sort of Thing. Which I Do!

  • @jorgeadairramos7469
    @jorgeadairramos7469 4 місяці тому +4

    Hello good afternoon

  • @bones642
    @bones642 4 місяці тому

    They have a raspy voice. :/ I do red light but I’ve wondered if it’s going to backfire.

  • @chijiokemadubuko9004
    @chijiokemadubuko9004 4 місяці тому

    Matthew 16:25.

  • @bj.reo87
    @bj.reo87 4 місяці тому +5

    Catholic Church at is finest

  • @Walt_Dismal
    @Walt_Dismal 4 місяці тому

    Nobody gets out alive.

  • @jacksynquiroz9168
    @jacksynquiroz9168 4 місяці тому

    I want to die when am old I do not want immortality and am thankful am not

  • @kleine.5438
    @kleine.5438 4 місяці тому +1

    To be honest Pope Innocent the 8th should have been excommunicated (I think that's what it's called) for that horrible stuff he did too/with with those teens body/blood😓🤮

  • @m.u.sik4eva
    @m.u.sik4eva 4 місяці тому

    They slick tryna normalize Andrenochrome smh

  • @JoeKavana
    @JoeKavana 4 місяці тому

    Where you will be spending Eternity?

  • @loserb85
    @loserb85 4 місяці тому +2

    John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

  • @rara1800
    @rara1800 4 місяці тому +1

    Rich people are weird 😂

  • @gevorg1989
    @gevorg1989 4 місяці тому

    Are 70 injections a day worth what it gives?

  • @yungxsixbigswagdady6970
    @yungxsixbigswagdady6970 4 місяці тому

    Minecraft Bedrock Private realm, current mods are texture pack and guns. Hmu for invite

  • @macngeeseyt6029
    @macngeeseyt6029 4 місяці тому +1

    Pope not so innocent

  • @joeb.evrythngEclectic5571
    @joeb.evrythngEclectic5571 4 місяці тому +1

    Who Want's To Live Forever?

    • @FlowerPup_AZ
      @FlowerPup_AZ 4 місяці тому +4

      Me. Dying is terrifying.

    • @joeb.evrythngEclectic5571
      @joeb.evrythngEclectic5571 4 місяці тому +1

      Me too.@@FlowerPup_AZ

    • @Jeremiah_Rivers76
      @Jeremiah_Rivers76 4 місяці тому +2

      @@FlowerPup_AZ”Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.”
      -Yoda on death, _Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith_

  • @TR12015
    @TR12015 4 місяці тому

    Atheists all of them even the pope

  • @susanstorm7910
    @susanstorm7910 4 місяці тому

    Brian Johnson gotta go. He’s awful