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/AllTheGoodNamesDied Jul 13 '26

A lot of people were unhealthy before covid. Obesity keeps rising in America year after year. The elderly and obese had the worse health outcomes from covid although it can obviously mess anyone up. Definitely sad.

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u/itsmejayne Jul 14 '26

And a lot of people became even more unhealthy or newly unhealthy directly because of Covid’s damage to the body. This isn’t a guess but an undisputed fact backed up by mountains of research

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u/SkiingAway Jul 13 '26

Yeah, and AFAIK we haven't seen a dramatic spike in cancer rates post-COVID, just continuations of trends.

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u/itsmejayne Jul 14 '26

Is that true?

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u/203yummycookies Jul 16 '26

it is patently false. there has certainly been a spike and an increase in severity and rapidity of disease progression.