Evolution's Brutal Retirement Plan

Evolution doesn't give a flying beaker about your individual survival once you've successfully reproduced! The meme perfectly captures natural selection's brutal indifference with medieval flair.

From an evolutionary standpoint, you're basically a glorified DNA delivery system. Got your genes into the next generation? Great! Your biological purpose is complete, and nature's like "Thanks for your service, but we're done here." That cancer-curing gene you might have had? Too bad it didn't express before you had kids!

This is why humans develop so many diseases later in life - natural selection simply doesn't care about post-reproductive health. Traits that kill you at 70 weren't weeded out because your ancestors already passed those genes along by then. Evolution's cold, calculating logic: reproduce first, worry about longevity never.