The Mariner

In the Ancient Mariner, the Mariner battles with the idea of living for forever. He finds this very inconvenient and would much rather die than watch everyone (his crew) die. He meets a poor man at a wedding, and tells him a long story about how he gets stranded in ice, while on a ship, he then shoots a bird, and then there's a huge drought. All this story does is portray the idea that even though we think that there is an end to life, there are unexplained things that can interfere with death.