It is... but I've never really thought about it.

[She huffs a sigh out and leans into him again, her eyes dipping half closed.]

We lived all the time knowing that children could just be taken away in the night, or maybe you'd catch swamplung and die... or maybe a goatfish would take your hand, or your leg. I always found the idea that I might just... fade into obscurity and never achieve anything to be far more frightening than anything else.