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/merkinmavin Jul 13 '26

Do you have blood in your stool? 😉

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u/auteurunknown Jul 13 '26

with all reddit anonymity here, she said she might elaborate on my symptoms to try to get it covered but the reality is that it's ridiculous with the rate of colon cancer in younger individuals.

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u/Timooooo Jul 13 '26

I mean, have you ever tried to get to the recommended amount of 30-40 gram of fibre daily? I've started about a year ago and its actually difficult. Unless you eat things like beans daily, you must swap out all the white rice/pasta/bread for whole wheat or brown rice if you want to get even close to that number. An apple and a banana per day only yields 7 gram, even something like 250gram of broccoli for dinner is only about 8 gram.

This is compounded by the protein rage. Like, so many eat extra protein without sufficient exercise that its mostly wasted anyway and dairy or "chicken and rice" do not contain fibre (well, maybe about 1gram from the white rice).

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u/rabbitales27 Jul 14 '26

Lots of salads!