Talk:Hob Gadling

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The paragraph re. happiness with immortality should probably be deleted. Element Girl and the character from the first Death trilogy both desperately wanted to die and were unable to do so, and there have probably been other characters in similar situations in Sandman or other works. --24.161.108.255 05:42, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

I agree, up to a point - Element Girl hated her awful life and wanted to die, and probably would have done had she been capable of committing suicide - but her misery was less to do with her immortality itself and more to do with her isolation from normal society. But I agree that immortality is not depicted as a blessing - just more life. Rewrite hopefully addresses this. 86.139.3.176 20:46, 24 January 2006 (UTC)