Entropy

Dr Carl said on Sunrise or the Today show once 'Death is a new thing' implying that the whole birth death cycle was a relatively recent innovation. Gilbert Arenas recently commented on how Micheal Jordon was looking old all of a sudden, because even though he is still mentioned in probably every basketball publication at least 10 times a day, but publicly doesn't appear that often, this process is different from sme era legend Charles Barkley because he is on every week.
Similar to Jordan pick up any martial arts magazine and you will find Bruce Lee mentioned at least twice and he died years ago.
Anyway all these dudes were genetically blessed, dominant in many regards, and also good at replicating as memes, that is ideas that reproduce themselves, all our impressions and abstract ideas that fight for dominance in the attention pool divided up between all sentient beings.
But why oh why did genes when replicating decide to take perishable vessels? why all the chromosome mixing and matching? why not just cut out all the probabilities and risks and just end up being a nice neat ever lasting cell. No need to wait for how long it takes to produce Alan Turings, Godels, Einsteins, Jordans, Don Bradmans etc. if genes were just robust enough to last long enough why the fuck imperfectly replicate, get messy, copy imperfectly, compete, interact with an environment.
Except obviously things that are messy, variable and evolutionary, cope with a changing environment better.
So to all those people trying to live as long as possible, and use as many resources as they can (pretty much everyone) think big picture. You gotta get over it, the whole thing called life will be much more robust, less perishable if we keep doing what we're doing and mixing it up.
Its called entropy people.