What happens when you are a grandparent but never get to really be the grandparent at Christmas because your own parents are still alive? What happens to people like poor Prince Charles who sit in the waiting room for decades because generational turnover never happened? This newsletter contains reflections on how generational turnover got stuck as a result of lengthening life spans and what we can start doing about it. Also: Related observations on how people are even starting to politicize their own deaths.