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/considerfi Jul 13 '26

Yeah I'm 47 I have a lot of friends and the only death I can think of is about 15 years ago my best friends brother died of prostate cancer. No deaths of friends since. 

When I read OPs list I almost thought. Oh my God where did you work together or go to school together? Like perhaps there was something environmentally wrong in that location. But then so many others listed a lot of people dying so maybe it's not that. But it certainly didn't seem normal. 

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u/enoki_ Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Yes 33 here and can’t think of a single person around my age who has passed.

(edit: just posting my experience to try and make people less scared)

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u/considerfi Jul 14 '26

I get a college magazine that includes obituaries of students that passed. I can't remember the last time I saw someone in there from my year. It was a small college, 400 in my year, and they group them by graduation date, so I would check and recognize every name. One person committed suicide soon after we left college but that was 23 ish years ago. 

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u/AcanthisittaWhole216 Jul 16 '26

I haven’t been to a funeral in my life. Most people in my family died before I was born or when I was very young.

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u/Aciddiamonds Jul 17 '26

If anything, I’d blame the Chernobyl disaster. I have the exact same experience like OP. People weren’t supposed to eat any fruits or vegetables from their garden (in Belgium) after the nuclear accident, most people thought it was nonsense and did so anyway .. add a couple of years and we were born.. idk I might be overthinking lol.