Generally, you'll see terms like "demographic collapse" instead, but yeah basically.
A lot of people were born during the immediate post-WWII years. Those people are now dying. Cause and effect.
Death Boom sounds cooler
I agree 💀
Kinda the ultimate name for a boomer shooter. And I just now realised how easily misinterpreted that name can be, had never thought of the "boomer" part as the generational term. It has no connection to that but I absolutely think many people think it does.
Death Boom sounds cool but the opposite would be "Birth Boom".
I think it should be "Corpse Boom".
I remember seeing "papy boom" in some French school books.
Darth Boomer: "No... I am your father."
Luke Y-walker: "No, that's not true! That's impossible!"
To an extent, COVID hit some of the oldest boomers - it was a little early, if we had held of COVID for another 10 years it definitely would have been a prime boomer expiration accelerator.
As things are, my parents are some of the earliest boomers and they're just turning 80. The death-rate boom should be picking up speed soon. Too bad they're giving all their acumumulated wealth to the healthcare industry instead of their kids.
We just want them to give us their houses.
Nah, they have a reverse mortgage on them so you'll need to buy them at further inflated prices because of it. Your inheritance was just debt and crippling depression.
Best we can do is a huge wave of reverse mortgages and Medicaid seizures due to end of life medical bills.
We had one in 2020 and 2021
Starts with a "oh shit these old people have expensive healthcare needs!", proceeds to "how the hell are we going to pay for their elder benefits?" (Social Security in the US), and eventually to "even their houses got gobbled up by the banks and private capital when they had to reverse mortgage their homes to pay off their medical bills and live out their final days...."
It has already started.
Yup.
Americans can't afford nursing homes and elder care.
So, afraid death it is. Hope there's no reverse mortgage for any of you to deal with.
Yes of course. The aging population phenomenon is well-documented. In Japan, it has been a matter of political discussion for decades. The U.S. has (until recently) relied on immigration to offset the declining birth rate.
We can only fucking hope...
The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, because they’ll trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.
yes. it's actually a huge thing the funeral world is dreading.
Publicly dreading, privately planning what they are going to do with all that extra cash.
There's GOLD in them caskets
Not if the retirement homes take it first!
We generally call those wars and plagues.
Famines.
A baby is the product of birth, the product of death is a corpse, so it'd be a corpse bloom.
I like to call them death waves because that is what we called them in Cities Skylines.
I think the deaths are a little more spread out.
I think you may be looking for this: https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
Retirement is more of a synchronized event, because folks generally retire around the same age...
People are generally born at the same age too.
Yes, but the point is their dying is more of a distribution.
Unless it's Cities Skylines. Then they all die at the same exact moment and your entire network gets slammed with hearses unable to get anywhere.
LOL.
But to be fair, OP did not specify whether it's Cyties Skylines or not.
Nah bro you just need more cemeteries and crematoriums, more hearses. Less dense neighborhoods with more mixed zoning.
Ugh happened at my job. Everyone older than me retired. All of them. So only ppl my age are running the show. Didn't help they did payouts for early retirement 3x.
The "baby boom" happened between 1946 and 1964, an 18 year period. Not everyone will die within an 18 year period. Some have already passed, some will live into their 90's and could be around until the 2060's
One can only hope.
Yes. We have been talking about it for 30 years at this point.
It's normally thought of as more of a "baby bust" but same thing really, a big whack of old people around for a while.
Sort of. You do get an increase in death rates decades later as people from a baby boom eventually die. However births tend to be in relative sync (closer together anyway) during a baby boom say over a period of a few years, while deaths are much more spread out maybe over a decade or more. That's because other factors come into play such as individual health, and the differences in people of the same age's health depending on economic state and lifestyle etc. In otherwords, lots of people may have been born in say 1945 but their deaths will be spread out over years because not everyone dies at the same age.
Many western countries are going through a period of natural population decline due to low birth rates and increasing death rates as baby boomers from 1945 onwards start dying. But those deaths are spread out, and somewhat offset by immigration. So yes more people are dying but populations are overall stable or even growing as immigrants flow in.
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.