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 💀
Darth Boomer: "No... I am your father."
Luke Y-walker: "No, that's not true! That's impossible!"
It sounds like Guile's special move for when someone's royally pissed him off.
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.
Sick band name
Morpheus toon makes room for the death boom.
Also 'boom' sounds a lot more fun, like a party with games or refreshments.
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.
The baby boom was ten years or so. The death boom is more spread out…people start dying in their 60s and can live into their 90s. So figure 30 years or so for the “boom.” Much harder to notice.
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...."
Yup.
It has already started.
I think the deaths are a little more spread out.
We can only fucking hope...
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
A baby is the product of birth, the product of death is a corpse, so it'd be a corpse bloom.
Hating on everyone from a race or gender: ❌️
Hating on everyone from a generation: 👌
The ruling class owned and controlled media has been peddling intergenerational conflict for decades, and millenials remember it well, all of the news articles about how millenials are causing all of society's problems.
We need to realize that it was always a psyop to divide us. From boomers to zoomers, the working class must stand together in solidarity against the elite pedophile billionaire cabal running the planet.
The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, because they’ll trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.
I like to call them death waves because that is what we called them in Cities Skylines.
Yes. We have been talking about it for 30 years at this point.
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.
We had one in 2020 and 2021
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.
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.
Sure as fuck hope so
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.
Hopefully soon, boomers have ruined everthing.
Respectfully, whenever I hear this I have to push back.
'The boomers fucked us over' trope is largely a myth like 'first world consumers are responsible for climate change': it's a cultural narrative that exists to divert blame to a huge group to obscure that it's mostly a small group of investors and their corporations who (in both of these cases) fucked over the other 99% of the civilisation.
It's true that most of the worst people are boomers: but as a group, most boomers are not these people. Most boomers are poor and have lived their whole lives in a fake democracy where they never really had serious political power.
The elderly greeters at Walmart who can never retire; the old woman at the bus stop wearing chipped glasses with a prescription 10 years out of date; the guy at the VA home dying of cancer he got from being drafted into Vietnam; these aren't the people who fucked the rest of us over. They're just us, older.
They should stop voting for republicans, but they don't.
Again, I don't want this to be a fight, but this isn't really true. Again, our media presents a certain picture of boomers that isn't actually reflective of what the average boomer looks like.
Most boomers aren't country club Republicans. In 2024, most baby boomers did not vote for Donald Trump.
In 2025, about 37% of baby boomers voted Republican. Just like most years.
You read that right: 25% didn't vote, and of those who did, Trump won 49%. That was enough to win.
Maybe you're asking, though, 'Why didn't they vote Democrat more! They should've elected Gore! And lots of Democratic congresspersons and senators! To which I would say that we live in a very damaged democracy in which the Democratic party has been running on most of the same economic policies as Republicans since the 1970s. Most boomers didn't have a say.
Most boomers are poor and have been fucked over by the government just like the rest of us.
The 1% (regardless of any age) are the bad guys.
Yea, but it has more to do with baby boomers wrecking everything than anything else.
Of the 76M Boomers born between '45 and '69, 64M are still alive. With a life expectancy of 85 and the first traumch entering their 80s this year, we would expect to see a rapid fall off in the population (or a rapid climb in life expectancy average) over the next decade
You have to be careful with life expectancy. The LE of someone who is already 80 is much higher than that of a newborn. There are actuary tables if you want to look for them.
Yeah, it's already happening in places like Japan but what'll really do it in for everyone is WW3. Any day now and Trump will cause it. I'd wage money but we all know once that starts, currency won't be worth damn.
There’s a film that deals with this exact situation, based on a true story.
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