Semantics. Certainly that's true for most animals, I'm not saying parents are programmed to fall over and die exactly the moment they have sucessfully reproduce

Semantics. Certainly that's true for most animals, I'm not saying parents are programmed to fall over and die exactly the moment they have sucessfully reproduced, clearly in those species only the offspring of caring parents have survived to reproduce themselves --- past that prime age they just lose that comparative youthful invincibility against environmental stress and accumulated damage and the resulting ever-accelerating degeneration..