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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8179423" data-attributes="member: 6988941">The Wildemount book has an option to have a dead character come back as an unaging undead revanant called a Hallow One or to create a character as such. That is the most straightforward character option for it.Contracting vampirism also does the trick, but vampires are rather powerful and this is might unbalance the game. There are also substantial drawbacks if they ever want to be in direct sunlight, pass through running water, or enter a residence uninvited.While there is no system support for PCs doing it, there is lore for Warlocks whose patrons have further work for them being kept "alive" as  undead deathlocks until their tasks are complete. I have a villain in my current campaign who is stuck in a cycle of this because his inscrutable Great Old One patron has tasks for him, but is unlikely to ever lay them out in a way he can comprehend.There is no system support for becoming a Lich, but there is a mention in the mindflayer section of Volo's Guide of it involving casting the Imprisonment spell on your phylactery, so you generally need to be a Wizard, Warlock, or Bard of at least 17th level for that, but I suppose a DM could leave a spell scroll hanging around somewhere.There are a variety of other ways to avoid aging, these are just the ones I can think of that involve embracing undeath.</blockquote>