If people live forever, or even just a significantly longer time than they do now, we will need to find alternatives to the benefits of death. In other words, progress does often happen one death at a time so we need mechanism that achieve that same effect. Will politicians or CEOs voluntarily move on and make room for new people and new ideas if they can live to 300? Will department chairs and heads of research step away voluntarily and let new ideas, not their own ideas, start taking center stage without some active force pushing them? We need to start developing the mechanisms that cut ties automatically and force renewal just like death does now or society will find new ways to bring unnatural death in for us.