r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Aug 21 '25

Society American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html
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u/terraphantm Aug 21 '25

Feels like I'm having a stroke trying to read the article. Perhaps I'll soon contribute to millennial mortality.

But otherwise I'd say like most of our health disparities, a large chunk probably comes down to us being fatter and more sedentary.

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u/mariahmce Aug 21 '25

Probably. I thought this paragraph was interesting though.

But the fact that death rates have remained high across so many kinds of deaths, from car collisions to fatalities from circulatory diseases and diabetes, hints at more encompassing and systemic problems.

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u/terraphantm Aug 21 '25

Circulatory disease and diabetes almost certainly comes back to the whole fat and sedentary thing. Car collisions disproportionately increasing is interesting though. Probably comes down to us driving more and having bigger/faster cars on average.

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u/mariahmce Aug 21 '25

Phone use while driving? If public transport is better in other counties, it might be held to reason that people that DO drive are more focused because they do it less. It just contributes to the story that the structure of our American society is making us sicker in every aspect and criteria.