Evolution wants individuals to die soon after giving birth or in the case of mammals, soon after their offspring are independents. Older individuals take resour

Evolution wants individuals to die soon after giving birth or in the case of mammals, soon after their offspring are independents. Older individuals take resources and keep around an old gene pool. When considered in a population, mortality is a feature, not a bug. Actually, it seems like aging is an additional feature, not a constraint of our bodies. There are animals that seem to have "accidentally" deactivated it: Galapagos giant turtles, some species of shrimps and, I think, some naked mole rats. These animals seem to have enough causes of mortality to keep evolving, without the need of a timer.