“The majority of us think there’s a natural order to death: it’s the old not the young that die. But this sequence is a very recent development. **The prospect that a child would outlive its parents is not a ‘natural’ occurrence at all: it’s something that we’ve had to fight hard for**. ([Location 555](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=555))” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[optimism]], [[conditional-optimism]], [[progressing-slowly]], [[technology]], [[gratitude]], [[parenting]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]