Planned non-obsolescence
is the opposite of planned obsolescence.

When you pour from a nearly empty milk carton
with unusual reserve
so as not to be the one
who drank the last of the milk.

When you push in your trash
so it squeezes into the eight-gallon white liner
with the faintest hint of a squint-eyed possibility
that someone else might possibly squeeze in just one more thing
after you,
so you are not that one
who didn’t bother to help clear out our toxic trash
and replace the liner for all of us.

When you don’t prepare a will
because you weren’t planning to need one.

When you continue to take one last breath
despite having considered all the reasons
not to bother.