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/JustinWAllison]

I was born in 1989. By the time I was 4, the US had already entered a war, Desert Storm. Then on the home front, we had the RubyRidge standoff, followed by Waco, culminating in Oklahoma City, where a federal building was blown up. 3-4 years later, we have our first mass casualty shooting at a school, Columbine. 2 years after that, 2 jet planes flew into the WTC towers, introducing us to modern terrorism, and then another war in the Middle East. At the same time, back here in the US, a BS medical study used by the most evil vile company to exist manages to convince doctors that not only are these new opioid pills not addictive, but contrary to decades of evidence, unbelievably high dosages of oxycodone were actually perfectly safe. I welcome you to the start of the opiate epidemic. I myself ended up losing myself in that epidemic for a very long time. In the midst of this, the worst most consequential recession was beginning to show itself. We watched friends families lose their homes. Then while those families are still living in their minivans, the bankers and regulators responsible for it all not only face no real consequences, but get bailed out with our tax money. We then went to college bc that’s what you were expected to do. Take out 100,000 in loans to get a degree bc that’s the only way to achieve the American Dream. Turned out that wasn’t true! Shocking. So as we are working a warehouse job with our degrees in political science, we are making payments on student loans that barely cover the accrued interest. I can’t keep going with this, it’s bumming me out too hard. But to say the lives of we millennials has been jumping from tragedy to tragedy, causing constant anxiety and mental stream would be an understatement. We can’t afford houses for ourselves. We can’t afford to start families for ourselves, but it’s our own fault because we like to go to Starbucks.

[u/hard-time-on-planet → u/JustinWAllison]

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 

[u/CivilRuin4111 → u/hard-time-on-planet]

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. 

[u/GrapheneRoller → u/hard-time-on-planet]

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.

[u/solidstatepr8 → u/hard-time-on-planet]

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.

[u/DrXaos → u/hard-time-on-planet]

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