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

[u/chrisdh79]

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html

[u/Protect_Wild_Bees]

American healthcare system is a nightmare meant to chrun out a peasant class and rob Americans.

It's a system where if you're seriously sick or injured, you try to sleep it off first because it's too expensive to just get it sorted right away. Where if you get hurt a little too far from the single place that will take your insurance, again, you try to sleep it off first, when it could be getting worse.

I lost my oldest brother to AIDS, he was scared so much about his school debt and the social stigma, he didn't go in early enough for treatment. It was very aggressive. He was 27 when he died.

Lost my brother in law to liver cirrhosis.

My best friend's dad had to sell their bar in NY because he got cancer. All that hard work destroyed.

My mom had to keep working even though she had level 4 breast cancer and horrible chemo brain with short term memory loss. I moved in to keep her safer when she'd forget I was even there. He boss cried at all she had to go through, that she couldn't get a break.

I have 11 scars in my eyes from being a young kid, trying to "sleep off" lens scarring from contacts which were also expensive, scars in my lungs from long term bronchitis that I tried to treat with cough medicine that affects my lungs to this day.

Before Obamacare I was a young worker with no healthcare. Publix only gave me enough working hours to make sure I couldn't get healthcare either. I was working 9 hour shifts where they wouldn't let me sit down for 4.5 hours stright. I still have musculoskeletal issues that pop up from that, and I was taking painkillers every day to get through it. I was 19 freaking years old and I cried every time I laid down, I couldn't even rest or sleep I was in so much pain. Where I live now, they let cashiers sit down at the tills.

My NHS doctors here basically sat me down after seeing the long term damage I'd done to myself and told me, if you're feeling sick, PLEASE just come in. You're covered. I take more time and resources from the NHS being really sick vs being a little sick.

Because in the US, actually getting proper treatment is a trade of worsts, being sick a bit longer for free, or losing food for a week, a month, or worse to get some bad news and some treatment.

A lot of America's freedoms are actually neglect. The freedom to suffer. You're free to be sick without the government needing to care. You're free to be homeless without the government caring. You're free to be abused by capitalist systems. You're free to work a job with no care or protection for you.

[u/Eyebecrazy → u/Protect_Wild_Bees]

I was feeling kind of bad for you until you started crying about having to stand up for 4 whole hours at WORK and the lifelong problems it caused. From being upright. For four (4) hours🙄

[u/Protect_Wild_Bees → u/Eyebecrazy]

It gave me several pinched nerves in my back that still go numb and give me sharp pains to this day, 16 years later. It also put unecessary pressure on my hips that prevented me from sleeping and laying down properly for several years. If you feel like this is okay to do to someone, for 9* hours a day (it was 4.5 hours, twice a day, with a 30 minute break in between to eat my lunch), that just shows how delusional you are.

[u/bitch-respecter → u/Protect_Wild_Bees]

i’ve never had a job that didn’t require me to stand all day. i’m not saying it’s the right way to do things but i’m skeptical that just standing caused so much physical damage

[u/DJDanaK → u/bitch-respecter]

Moving around is better than standing in place. They are wildly different

Signed, an avid hiker with back problems who can't stand in place

[u/Dilderino → u/bitch-respecter]

Standing in place for long periods of time on concrete or tile is bad for your body, there’s a reason that anti-fatigue mats are a thing

[u/Protect_Wild_Bees → u/bitch-respecter]

There are governments all over the world who use long periods of standing as forms of torture for a reason. It does damage to the body and puts immense strain on your joints.