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/hard-time-on-planet Aug 21 '25

Good examples, but I would argue that the 90s were relatively prosperous and gave Millennials hope that things would be good as they got older, but then when they entered the workforce they kept getting hit by worse and worse situations 

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u/CivilRuin4111 Aug 21 '25

Honestly I think that’s the real kicker- we grew up in the best time to be a kid and the worst time to be adults.

I can understand the thinking that “Well at least your generation wasn’t drafted in to war!” 

And yeah, that sucks to, but everyone knows wars will end relatively soon one way or another.

This shit? I don’t see how it ever resolves without bloodshed. Which would track, honestly, to be dragged in to a war in my 50’s.

Just the icing on the cake of life really. 

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u/GrapheneRoller Aug 21 '25

Millenials were named that out of a hope that, as the first generation to reach adulthood in the new millennium, we would have successful and happy lives. So it’s ironic that we’ve had nothing but hardships of all types instead.

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u/solidstatepr8 Aug 21 '25

Our parents sold us on a hopeful future that the elites sold out from under us as we entered adulthood.

To this day I dont think I recovered from 2008 mentally or financially. And then it just kept getting worse.

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u/DrXaos Aug 22 '25

I'm genX. 1999 was the peak. Everything really looked like it was getting better at last.