Death Negation

"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."

― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

"People do not want immortality. They simply do not want to die [...] They want to live. They want to feel the ground beneath their feet, see the clouds overhead, love other people, be with them, and think. Nothing more. Everything that has been said beyond that is a lie."

― Ijon Tichy (Memoirs of a Space Traveller)

The power to negate death/dying. Variation of Negation. Opposite to Eternal Rest Inducement.

Also Called

Beating Death
Death Cancellation
Defeating Death

Capabilities

User can negate/cancel out some or even all kinds of deaths from oneself and others, truly making them ensuring that the living stays alive, even in death they can resurrect themselves for as long as the user so desires, potentially defeating death itself no matter how strong or impossible the odds may be.

Applications

Concept-Dependent Immortality; The Will To Live
- Retroactive Immortality
Immortality
Resurrection/Self-Resurrection

Variations

Death Prevention

Associations

Absolute Immortality
Afterlife Border
Indomitable Will
Life Inducement; to negate the death of others.
Life Resilience
Life Preservation
Negation
Soul Anchoring; to negate Soul Destruction.
Supernatural Survivability
- Impossible State Survival
Survival Intuition; For none supernatural survival.

Limitations

May only be able to negate their own death.
May be unable to prevent death from natural causes.
- Thus may be weak against Life Reduction.
May not be able to negate Unavertable Death.

Known Users

See Also: Staying Alive.

Kratos (God Of War)
Superman (DC Comics)
Bruce Wayne/Batman (DC Comics); via Indomitable Will
Misogi Kumagawa (Medaka Box); via All Fiction
Clear Rivers (Alternate Ending) (Final Destination); after giving birth
Everyone (Sunday Without God)
Frisk (Undertale); while fighting the God of Hyperdeath
Stanley Ferguson/Brutus (Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Zombies)
Loki (Marvel Comics); after being erased from the Book of Hel
Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)
Kindred "The Eternal Hunter" (League of Legend); via Lamb's Respite
Tanhony's SCP-001 Proposal - Dead Men (SCP Foundation)
Revenant (Apex Legends); via Death Totem

Known Locations

Magic School (Charmed)