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Lifehoarding
(n.)
Optimizing so hard for longevity that life itself goes unlived.
Every medical breakthrough nudged her deeper into lifehoarding: another eight o'clock bedtime while her friends ordered another round.
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Coinage notes
From the Old English hord, treasure: chronicled in fables as the miser’s vault or the dragon’s pile. Hoarding, not saving, because saving implies you’ll one day spend; hoarding is what happens when the pile itself becomes the point. Lifehoarding may seem increasingly rational if longevity breakthroughs add years faster than we age.
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