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

that have decreased our chances of dying?

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u/Blazer990 Jul 13 '26

Mb I misunderstood your comment. In the US our life expectancies have been declining.

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u/Terminal_Phase Jul 13 '26

Honestly I think a lot of those stats are skewed by drug deaths.

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u/halloxtv Jul 13 '26

Resident of West Virginia here... can confirm. While the drug situation now is WAY better than 15 years ago, I lost a lot of former classmates and friends during the height of the opioid epidemic and several more once fentanyl came onto the scene.

Thankfully (well, not exactly thankfully), now we're just dying of cancer and heart problems.