Imagine a world where no one dies from disease. Where people routinely live to 200. It sounds amazing—until you think about what that world looks like. Yes, death is bad. But eternal life, or even vastly extended life, is systematically irresponsible. Solving death isn’t the same as solving suffering. In fact, it may amplify it.

The fantasy of the rich saviour—the billionaire tech founder who cheats death and “saves” humanity—sits at the feverish centre of a hype-fuelled Venn diagram where AI, profitable healthcare, and the god complex converge.