Immortality is their goal, and they are on the cusp of achieving it. The technology is there. Plus, they've got practically the entire global population in their clin8cal trials now.

Immunity to pathogens, restorative blood/stem cell therapies, cybernetics. All moving ahead at astounding speeds.

Its almost as if, some extremely wealthy, powerful, pretty old people think they might be able to see it come to fruition before they are called to check out.