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It's a bit taboo, but I believe permitted. "Typical" lifespans are on the order of a few hundred years.
Don't recall it being taboo, just that people eventually get bored and end it out of ennui, in universe. Granted it's been ages since my last readthrough.
I'm in the middle of my first! In Use of Weapons, they talk about how the character Zakalwe (not culture) has chosen to be modified to a fixed age, and how contrary that decision is the cultures philosophies.
IIRC they think it's weird, but importantly they still do it. He's an agent so there's Special Circumstances but they still value the choice to do it more than they do sticking to norms.
Hmm I definitely need to do a reread. Do you have the text of that bit handy?