Extending the life of mice

Grace and Blanche, two old mice who were second cousins, reached relative fame before dying within months of each other at their home in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Known fondly as the Golden Girls at Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit that specializes in research and mouse production, the two were believed to be the oldest living mice in the world just before their passing in 2016.

Gary Churchill, a geneticist who does aging research at the lab, was hoping one of them would reach her fifth birthday, a feat unknown to mice. Grace, the eldest, was 4 years and nine months old when she died, roughly the equivalent of 150 human years.

WSJ

extending the life of mice is 

diabolically cruel *

what have they done to deserve

the lingering terror of victimhood?

we trap them *

poison them *

sic cats on them *

experiment on them *

I'm surprised we don't

send assassination

drones

after them *

somebody

should figure out

how to shrink their existence

to the blink of a mayfly *

don't tinker with mice

to figure out how to 

prolong

human life *

tinker with men

and women and children *

soothe them with pralines

and chauffeured trips to the mall *

learn to love mankind

you rodent crucifiers *

then longevity won't be a problem

cuz who cares how long you live

after you get a hug from a white

lab coat?