Ancient cultures widely imagined earthly places to live forever

Evidence

The ancients also sought to live forever by earthly rather than spiritual means. All over the world, people have cherished the notion that there were certain places where one could live forever, or at least for a very long time. For the Greeks, that place was the Isles of the Blest, located in the Atlantic Ocean and inhabited by a semidivine race that knew no sorrow. Persians longed for the Land of Yima, to the north and underground. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 365

Categorization

• FICTION: A survey of immortal lands across world mythologies could seed a worldbuilding piece on how cultures map their death-denial onto geography.
• XREF: connects to: Cultures do not die but become undead, persisting as mere lifestyle options