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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
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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...."
We can only fucking hope...
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!
The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, because they’ll trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.
We generally call those wars and plagues.
Famines.
I like to call them death waves because that is what we called them in Cities Skylines.
A baby is the product of birth, the product of death is a corpse, so it'd be a corpse bloom.
I think you may be looking for this: https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
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I think the deaths are a little more spread out.
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.
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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.
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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.
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