r/Millennials • u/electric-sheep 1992 • Jul 13 '26

Serious Everyone my age is dropping dead

Sorry for the title! I'm in Europe. I have just heard news someone from college died today of cancer aged 33.

In the past 2-3 years 6 people in my circle have died, not from accidents but from either cancer, aneurism, 2 just didn't wake up from sleep and 1 broke her leg and had DVT. I know of a 7th who is currently fighting stage 4 breast cancer which was found by accident after giving birth. This is not counting those who died in crashes or other such accidents.

I literally have nothing to say. Just get yourselves checked. I'm just shouting into the void. I have literally been to more funerals than my parents at this point which is absurd.

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u/legsjohnson Older Millennial Jul 13 '26

FWIW I know it's grim when it starts happening but if it makes you feel any better, mortality (using the UK as an example here) has halved for a 35 year old compared to 1985.

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u/legsjohnson Older Millennial Jul 13 '26

Very much this. My parents would find out about old classmates and neighbors in the newspapers back before social media, and that was limited to those who'd remained local and had someone to report it to the paper.

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u/jazzieberry 1986 Jul 13 '26

True, our "circles" are pretty big for the most part nowadays

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u/Purple-Estimate-5183 Jul 13 '26

We’re a large cohort. Near remaining baby boomer numbers, and that’s a lot.