In fairness, I think it's kind of hard to "kill" an artificial tree. My grandparents had there's for like 30 years, and then gave it away to my aunt Because it was getting too large for them.

The tree my parents had was the same for at least 15 years. Maybe more. Idk what happened to it after we moved out of my childhood home.

The tree I have? It's prelit, so I don't imagine the lights will work for nearly that long, but you cut out the topical lights and wires and you still got a tree. Actually, I bought an identical tree 2 years ago and this year it only had like 25% of it working. The company I bought it from had a 3 year warranty so I got a new one this year free of charge, and donated the old one to my mom with the lights cut off.