[dinamic]

> but, by constitutional law, nobody, not even the king himself, could put off their turn indefinitely.

I'm not sure that any real-life moral imperatives could be based on made-up story about obviously utopian society.

For me, immortality does not sound as a good idea even as a thought experiment. We already have problems with wealth and power imbalance. The invention of immortality would just deepen these problems exponentially.

[naasking]

So solve the problems of wealth and inequality too. I fail to see why these must be intrinsically linked. If anything, the compounding effect of immortality on wealth inequality would almost certainly lead by itself lead to a structural revolution.