Taking advantage of a sudden death was a viable career path for much of the olden days. If you’re looking for promotion nowadays, hoping your immediate superior will snuff it just isn’t enough. It’s not very nice and it’s likely to lead to disappointment. You have to get proactive and start sending out CVs. People don’t die as much as they used to. That’s not quite true. People still die at exactly the same rate as they always have: once per person. It’s not how it feels, though, because people used to die younger, on average, and more randomly. It jazzed things up, introduced an element of
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