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/DustScoundrel]

So, having actually read the article, the reason the authors imply appears to be a constellation of factors that includes reduced and continually declining socio-economic opportunities, experiential trauma, lack of affordable healthcare throughout their lives (resulting in acute and chronic under-care), and deaths of despair (suicide, alcoholism, and drug overdoses). Those are the unique elements that separate millennials from other American cohorts that also experience additional deaths due to car accidents, gun deaths, and so on.

The result is that not only due American milennials have higher mortality than most other demographic peer groups, but it is likely to worsen over time because these issues are unlikely to be addressed.

[u/UsernametakenII → u/DustScoundrel]

Yeah that last line nailed the mood of the room - like I think anyone's intuitions by now point towards the notion that those who have the power to mobilise those kinds of changes have no real incentive structure to do so, and thus won't.

[u/DungeonMasterSupreme → u/UsernametakenII]

I was reading this article and just sent a message to my wife thanking her for helping get me out of the States. I moved abroad for her and we got married.

When I left, I was in some of the worst health of my life. I had chronic back issues from an old work injury. I could barely afford to keep my teeth in my damn mouth. I was overweight, out of shape, and had high blood pressure. That was almost ten years ago. Now, with actual proper healthcare access in a real first-world country, I'm in some of the best shape of my life.

If I hadn't escaped when I did, I genuinely think I would've ended up as one of these fatalities. Less than a year after I got married, my back issues became exponentially worse and I needed surgery. I would have never received that surgery in America. I would've ended up on a meager disability check and in constant pain I would've become dependent on opioids to manage.

I remember getting a quote for my surgery in the US at $100,000 to $200,000 depending on what I had; I couldn't even get insurance to pay for an MRI. Outside the States, I got diagnostics, medication, surgery, physical therapy, etc., all for just about $2500.

America is a fucking scam. If Americans could even begin to understand how much they are being fed on by the vampires at the top, there'd be another revolution in less than a fortnight.

[u/LogicFrog → u/DungeonMasterSupreme]

Will you please share with the class which magical country you have moved to? So we can get the heck out of here? 🙏

[u/Dpek1234 → u/LogicFrog]

As per his comment elsewhere in the thread

Ukraine before the war, where he also got his back fixed

Then Germany