Gen X-er's seem to be dropping like flies

I blame Aqua Net.

It was the puka shells.

Bad diets?

A lot of Gen X-er's are dying from drug overdose, or non-natural causes.

They spent the second half of their life online, parked on their ass at their desktop computers and then their smartphones.

It's gonna hit the millennial generation much younger.

Easy. Doesn't matter what age you are, heavy smoking and stress and high sodium are all huge risks for stroke. Bad genes as well.

Popcorn ceilings

Blame Zima.

Sedentary lifestyle kills

R6, you’ve killed me.

Asbetos, Lead Paint, Bartles and Jaymes.

Gen X had it harder than most, in terms of a mind fuck.

The Cold War, Ronald Reagan, AIDS crisis, threat of nuclear annihilation, etc.

GenX with their abusive Greatest Generation parents and Reaganomics and HIV and student loan debt with fewer good jobs available were boned from the beginning. All the so-called slacker nihilism and sarcastic humor masked deep fear and generational PTSD, metaphorically speaking. We relied on everything from crack to Hostess fruit pies to cope. We grew up with shitty food, shitty local water sources, a shit ton of child molesters in our churches and schools, and were given piles of prescription drugs to fix it all with no regard for the long-term side effects.

We will not be a long-lived generation.

We’re miserable and have no hope for retirement. Thanks to the Republican decisions to “replace” pensions with 401k (which basically let companies stop,paying for it and put the burden wholly on Gen X - after Baby Boomers got theirs). Of course we are drinking and drugging ourselves to death. It’s either that or work ourselves into the grave.

R12 makes many good points.

Because they weren't as active as previous generations but twice as bitchy. All this thread is crap "waah cold war, waah stress, waah bad environment, waaah abusive parents". My father and his father's generation had shit load rougher lives and way filthier environment. I say this as a millennial who are even less active and bigger pussies than gen x. I feel a lot of millennials wont hit 40 and it serves them right, ungrateful spoiled little bastards.

I really don’t know.

R15 E everyone will celebrate when you die.

Snack cakes.

r17 which will probably long be after you . Now go pop your meds and wine pussy.

Lack of a future retirement for most... who wants to live to 80 and still work? I’d rather die in my late 50s than “look forward” to a non existent retirement.

R19 you psychotic cunt.

No way you're a millennial, R15.

It would make your parents a baby boomer, and they didn't have it hard at all.

That's why they're all still hanging around like cockroaches, and gen x is passing away.

Well, only Gen X gets my vote in 2020. I am tired of being overlooked.

I agree about Millennials. We won't last long. Huge portions will be wiped out.

FYI, the parents of the baby boomers are the Greatest Generation.

r22 How did boomers have it easier? They suck, but they had to deal with nam, manual labor, chores, more drugs, more crime, constant moving , integration and changing neighborhoods, and that just socially. environmentally You add in asbestos, lead, power plants blowing unregulated, sulfur from steel mills, drug testing, radioactivity, plus a whole shitload more. Boomers were also far more disciplined, and didn't have mommy to run to for every dick-headed thing they did.

W&W, R20. I think lack of retirement options for younger generations is going to become a major contributor to early death, whether from suicide or from the more mundane health problems that will result from overwork and despair.

R26 boomers could live off 1 salary and that wasn't a neurosurgeon' s salary. Many had a holiday home and retired with a pension at or before 65. This does not happen today in the US. So while they may have been more disciplined, the majority had it good with pensions, no outrageous tuition for schooling and affordable home prices. But you won't agree with me because you probably had it good too.

Exposures. Food quality. Vaccine Schedule. Fast Food.

r28 You say this, and yet people now have all those things plus more. Also I'm not a boomer I'm 28, that's why I know I have it a lot easier than my father. A lot families I know do live off one salary ,union jobs pay 6 figures and have MASSIVE pensions, fuckin teachers across the street from me make 200,000 a year off pensions . Shit was cheaper back then sure, but you also didn't hve these 0 down loans and garbage. I'm not saying boomers were great, but anybody who thinks lifes harder now Is ignorant and disrespectful.

Worse drugs (illegal and legal).

More/worse chemicals in food/drinks.

Lack of exercise (not talking about a treadmill).

Lack of moderation/limits.

I’m 45 and I don’t give a shit anymore!

Almost all of the music superstars who ruled the charts when I was in high school and college are dead now. How depressing to listen to 80s music and realize that they're all gone. It's like the death of your youth.

Michael Jackson, Whitney, Prince, David Bowie, Donna Summer, Aretha, Natalie Cole, Tom Petty, Freddie Mercury, George Michael. The only ones still left are Madonna, Cyndi and Lionel Richie.

Madonna, Cyndi, and Lionel suck ass. Like you, cunt.

Some high profile boomer musicians are still around, two Beatles, Stones, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell. I think musicians that play their own instruments live longer. Just a theory.

R30 is delusional

R30 scrubs toilets at the Bellagio.

Laura Branigsn is dead!

Dang I hope I die by 70. It's going to be more of a shit show in the next 20 years.

R33 and Kirsty MacColl!

The government wants us dead so they can take our social security.

Well those bitches are winning! Aren’t they the lucky ones?

Chronic depression shortens the life span. Gen X have more issues with depression for various reasons. For instance, we were the first generation to experience the widespread divorce of our parents.

We were raised in a time of hedonistic displays of wealth on MTV, which we all grew up watching, thinking we were supposed to surpass the lifestyle of our parents, then the American dream withered away with our prospects of upward mobility. MTV also began to die a long slow death. Now we're watching our heroes exposed as shams and/or die young. Life is bleak and we're all jaded as hell.

Well, why not? It's not as though it's going to get any better...for anyone.

I'm Gen X and echo a lot of what R12 and R13 had to say... though I will say that our generation has had to develop survival skills that could serve the rest of the nation well.

What kind of survival skills do you mean, R46? Because, with the way climate change is progressing, Gen X might soon be needing water-purification, navigation, hunting, and emergency medical skills.

Most middle-class boomers grew up in two-parent families and with a mother who didn’t work and was home to look after the kids. But I’m sure that has nothing to do with how seemingly better off they are - if they really are better off.

I'm happy to check out early: my bags have been packed for a while.

R30 Ha! Poo wishes she could sound like that. I can spot her posts anytime anywhere. They are completely lacking in any self awareness and humor and she always finds a way to compliment herself or brag. (Last night when I was leaving my luxury condo in Ls Vegas...)

Naw, that ain't Dumbvida.

Besides Luke Perry, who else?

First generation to eat only factory food.

That's why I escaped to the forrest at a very young age, to not have them find ME, touche ME with their FILTHY hands and cocks...

R12 Yes, they were so hard down by that none of them had children to prevent another generation from also suffering.

[quote] The only ones still left are Madonna, Cyndi and Lionel Richie.

And Trent Reznor, because he was a poser.

Somehow Eddie Vedder lives, which is surprising in a Keith Richards kind of way.

Why did Baby Boomers last so long?

Good diet and healthcare?

What R52 said.

For R33, don’t forget the decimation of the grunge scene with Kurt, Scott Weiland, and Chris Cornell all gone.

Boomers could buy homes and count on high wages, steady raises (remember cost of living increases?), and pensions. They also reaped the benefits of investing pre-crash of 2008.

Gen X wages stalled after 2008, their 401K’s were halved, and they had to buy homes at the height of the bubble. AND pay a fortune for healthcare. You do the math.

R30 you couldn't be more wrong. The average American is not making six figures, and in this economy, with rents, mortgages, and other costs of living as high as it is, even a low to medium six figure income doesn't cut it.

Aside from that, back then there was a sense of family and community that does not exist today, which affects this generation in innumerable ways, economically, emotionally, mentally. People aren't even raising their kids. Strangers in daycare do that. Food back then was real food, healthy food without a shitload of chemicals and hormones, grown in soil that was still capable of imparting vitamins and minerals to what grows in it.

[quote]then the American dream withered away with our prospects of upward mobility

It didn't wither away. The boomer parents fleeced their own children while the "greatest generation" looked on.

If I had to name the two major causes of death among Gen-X'ers, I would probably say suicide/depression and cancer.

I have known over a handful of people in their mid to late 40's and early 50's in just the past three years, who have died from one of these two things.

Cancer has been a bitch. Have known 5 people under 52 who have died of cancer. And most of them were super healthy types. Too many chemicals in everything. Allowed by the government thanks to intensive lobbying that says “small amounts” of known carcinogens are ok. Capitalism is ultimately the cause of many of these early deaths.

I had cancer at 42. Gen X wasn't warned about HPV when we were young.

Gen X seems to be overlooked. We have no leaders because they are all ancient or very young. No one represents us - I know, it’s probably our fault that Hillary, Trump, Sanders and Co haven’t given us a chance... Many of us are educated but still the working class.

We have no leaders because certain parties do not ever want to retire, R64.

Actually, what I meant is that we DO have leaders but they're not really given a chance to lead.

You wish, you old bitch.

I am 42 and have bipolar disurder. I read online just today that bipolar people have a shorter life expectancy than heavy smokers. If suicide doesn’t get me then the shitty meds I’m on will kill me. I’m not a smoker or drinker and I do cardio everyday but who am I kidding?? I’ll be shocked if I last another 10 years.

I meant disorder not disurder. Sheesh.

I think Gen X is truly the first half-sedentary generation, plus carcinogens, plus smoking/drugs, plus the first generation to experience “the breakdown of the nuclear family” (remember when we used to hear that phrase constantly? And all the other things pointed out upthread. However, I also think it is true that our overall quality of life in local communities is much higher because there is (generally) much less corruption in law enforcement compared to 75 years ago, pollution has inmproved compared to the 70’s (think of 70’s NYC), and better healthcare is more readily available. But Gen X also is the first to know they cannot retire and that Social Security will not be funded, blahblahblah.

Each generation faces it’s own unique crises. For years, Gen X was made fun of because we “never lived through anything big” like Vietnam or the JFK assassination.....and then came 9/11. Each generation will be tested and face trials. But Gen X is unique in that it really is the first to have less hope. So I do think there is a case to be made that Gen X faces the strongest disillusionment of any generation prior and truly represents the first generation who cannot achieve the American Dream. Hence early deaths, which are recorded as overdose, suicide, heart disease, etc. but in fact, the primary cause of death relates to mental health.

Millennials and Gen Z are truly the future of this country. I’m excited to see these two generations reignite civic projects, racial justice, end all forms of discrimination, and much much more...I believe the force of these two generations will be unstoppable, and that is why we are seeing the last death throes of the GOP.

I hope you're right r70.

Sad Final Days of GenX

AIDS epidemic, 2000 election, 9/11, 2016 election, and now the Trans brigade. They're checking out!

Try to be a little less negative, guys.

The concern troll has arrived @ r73.

R73, I’m not negative, nor am I positive. I’m a pragmatist and a realist with just a splash of stoicism. I can’t live in a fantasy, and I see people who do that as weak.

dramatic much?

[quote] I think Gen X is truly the first half-sedentary generation, plus carcinogens, plus smoking/drugs, plus the first generation to experience “the breakdown of the nuclear family” (remember when we used to hear that phrase constantly? And all the other things pointed out upthread

1968 was a true transition point for the country and the world.

So many devastating and life-changing events happened that year, which changed the world completely.

The bulk of Gen X'ers were born give or take 5 years before and after 1968, which puts them smack dab in the middle of the "earthquake." It had to have affected them healthwise, both mentally and physically.

I think that they have always had a fairly fatalistic view of the world.

[quote]That's why I escaped to the forrest

Well, life is like a box of chocolates....

John Singleton is not dead yet, but he just had a stroke.

Born 1968.

Are they just over worked?

They’re reporting everywhere that Singleton died and his publicist is running around denying it and saying he’s on life support.

Either way, that’s not good.

Crappy, chemical laden designer drugs

Crappy, chemical laden GMO foods

Lost investments in 2008 crash

Stagnant wages since the freakin 90’s

Drinking wine like it’s water

Workloads tripled and computers speeding up efficiency

Housing prices all over the fucking map

Drumpf

Ive had 3 friends in their 50s die of cancer.Ive had at least 6 friends die of heart issues.Ive realized that the majority of the men I dated and fucked 35 years ago are all dead (and there were quite a few) and I turned 58 in november. My older brother just got diagnosed with bladder cancer,Ive had 2 heart attacks at age 42,and so many people I know now have diabetes . I never knew anyone who had diabetes until the last 20 years or so.Like I tell my doctor "who the fuck WANTS to live another 20 years?!?"

Are you GenX or a Baby Boomer, R82?

Sounds like you're the latter, being 58 years old.

It's the food. I don't know why people aren't rioting in the streets over this. The sheer amount of awful shit that goes into food these days is astounding. The huge food producers have successfully blocked any attempts to be honest about what's in their food. Of course there's tons of 85+ people burying their children, those older people actually drank milk that was actually milk. They ate meat that was actually meat. Consider that A LOT of those people smoked or were around smokers A LOT and they're still alive...

In the 80s R84 I worked in a restaurant in St. Pete Fl where 90% of the clientele were seniors. Most of them smoked,most of them had cocktails before dinner,and most of them were in their 70s-80s and up.Same place where I waited on some of the cast of Cocoon,but I digress. That place was always packed,and those people werent on any sodium free,cholesterol free,everything free diets either ! yet very few of them were fat. I agree,the food is killing us.

[quote] I agree,the food is killing us.

And yet, all the bullshit advertising on television would tell you otherwise.

Panera, Whole Foods, Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers, etc., are all advertising "clean living" and good health.

Don't even get me started on the Monsanto and Koch company commercials, talking about how good they are for the environment and the planet.

GenX was raised by the Nixonian parents who thought the best thing for the kids was to send them off to war rather than anything. Disney also made significant changes to copyright laws in 1977, that now made lawyers the arbiter of whether you’d see a dime from establishing yourself by being published.

I'm always surprised to see so many overweight teens and 20 somethings when I'm walking about. Especially women, I don't why but I notice the weight issue seems more prevalent among girls and women.

- Canadian

Sad Final Days of the inquisitive GenX.

The first generation to experience factory food.

A small generation, numbers wise the smallest.

Cancer

AIDS

9/11

The GOP attack on civil liberties.

Stagnation of wages

A generation that experience 2 stolen elections.

Mobile technology changing the workforce.

Global warming

Being sandwiched between two psychopath generation (Boomers and Millennials)....

Kind of a tragic generation

I'm the one who wrote my little rant at r12.

Since then two of my GenX friends from school have died. One funeral was today. He'd just turned 50 a few days ago.

Because they’re soft, lazy fuckers who won’t fight for what they need. Fight for unions. Fight for health care. Fight for jobs. Get off your asses and close down the streets. Once you start hitting the streets like the French did, things will change for you. But you want to blame your parents instead. Your parents fought for what they got.

Now get up off your asses, shut down the screen in front if your face and march.

My friend was a whistleblower and activist who had helped the homeless since he was a teen and exposed corruption in our state government. You don't get any more details than that because I don't want you psychopaths looking up his obit.

His parents were abusive fundies and he never fully recovered from what they did to him. And now he's dead.

But keep fucking that generational chicken, r91. I'm sure you're a valuable member of society.

So much anger, r92.

So much truth, R92

Aren't Gen Xs the crack baby generation?

The Resentment Generation

Why are all the Gen X presidential candidates so blah?

I too have lost fellow GenXers to stroke, cancer, and suicide. Very sorry to learn I'm not alone in this.

I think living through the nuclear threat of the Cold War, 1979 to 1985, also had a profound effect on our mental state.

R98, Baby Boomers lived through nuclear air raid drills for years, hiding under desks, cafeteria tables and in school hallways. They watched cartoons telling them to duck and cover. Their parents put air raid shelters in their back yard and stocked them with canned food.

They lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis when we were on the brink of nuclear war with the USSR.

One study says that for non-Hispanic Gen X white men and women, overdoses and alcohol-related diseases appear to be driving increased mortality.

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When I saw this thread I thought it was the usual catastrophising BS (here gen Xers buy these overpriced vitamins and outlive those greedy boomers). But there is a real drop in life expectancy, and it might be getting worse. It seems to be only in the USA, for now. But I can remember when Americans started becoming overweight in the 80's and the rest of us followed that trend over the next few decades.

Anyways, look after yourselves my fellow loungers.

I think there are many factors:

The epidemic of meth and opioids in the USA.

The bad eating habits learned in this country, coupled with Gen-Xer's entering their 50's.

Stress from debt and rising costs in the USA.

Having grown up during the Cold War, the Reagan era, the AIDS crisis, etc., Gen Xer's have always had a heightened sense of fatalism, which causes depression and anxiety.

Worries about retirement and social security which will be non-existent when they retire.

There's a lot more, but in general this is about extreme stress, which causes severe depression and anxiety, leading to health problems and increased suicide rates and drug addiction.

At least the cost of living for Boomers was still affordable when they came of age. And Millennials and Gen Z can sponge off of their parents.

Gen X'ers are on their own, and it's a hard life.

r103 has never met a gross generalization she did not adore, cherish, and revere.

Life has not been great for all baby boomers. Being a late Boomer, born in 1960, I haven't reaped all the rewards that those born 10 years before me had. Nope. Out of college in the 80's, and pensions were going the way of the dodo bird, that much promised 4 day work week never materialized, Social Security has been raided by the Feds several times, cost of living guaranteed 2 income households, wages stagnated and it wasn't until the last fifteen years or so when my income rose that I've been able to live somewhat comfortably. Not all roses for the boomer generation.

Is anyone really missing any of the "dropping like flies" set?

Thanks to all for sharing and I'm sorry for all of our losses. I've experienced Boomer and GenX friends and family dying way too soon due to heart disease, stroke, cancer, and suicide.

Is it our unhealthy levels of stress? Poor diet? Smoking? Drinking? Broken families? Job insecurity? Stagnant wages? Broken healthcare system? Alllll of it?

R105 = Jones Generation: the people ripped off by their older brother and sister boomers.

I can only think it will get worse as generations continue. Obesity, energy drinks loaded with stuff that affect your heart, sedentary lifestyles... I wonder how long before we'll see the average lifespan begin to noticeably decrease.

We were the victims of education reform in Britain when the grammar schools were closed down and replaced by far inferior comprehensives.

Average lifespan has already decreased in the United States.

R108 Wow! I didn't realize there was a name for that generation. And yes, after Googling that, it is exactly what I what I went through.

Thanks R108; I didnt know that either. Explains a lot, actually.

GenX surf legend Sunny Garcia in ICU after suicide attempt:

aNOTHER GEN x SURFER RECENTLY KILLED HIMSELF.

[quote]A lot families I know do live off one salary ,union jobs pay 6 figures and have MASSIVE pensions

What union jobs?

I’ve lost so many friends but my parents and all their cronies go on and on, fueled by gin and juice. They are indestructible, maybe from running through DDT in the summers.

I think aside from behavioral issues which are rampant and the copious amounts of substances that were doled out to kids without question to make the lives of the adult around them easier (schools mandating therapy and meds for ADD/ADHD), was the beginning of the domino effect. The FDA seems weaponized in that Boomers are presenting a problem in terms of longevity, so the next generation to follow got highly engineered food products that almost all contain synthetic substances and sugars, cell turnover is slowing which leaves more time to mutate (increasing cancer risk) and then you have NSAIDS, which are as bad for the heart as smoking! But they're 'safe' because they're 'approved by the FDA, DEA, etc. Better dying through chemistry.

Boomers had hippes, Jonesers had The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

They are nice fellows.

We grew up in the free living, unrestrained 70s where drugs and excess were glorified. Though the culture has now decided it’s bad starting in the 80s, there is a certain acceptance of hedonism that may be instilled in our outlook from romanticizing that era. Combined with the decline of the US and disappearance of jobs and safety net (pensions) during our lifetimes, it’s not surprising that we are driving and drinking ourselves to death or giving up hope that we will have the things that prior generations took for granted or will be able to remain relevant in the tech driven globalized hypercapitalist world we live in now.

^drugging nor drinking

Measles seems to be targeting Jonesers, who may or may not have the vaccination.

Crack babies were the older millennials born in the 80s

We Xers are fucked up due to the perfect storm of the late 60s that shaped the 70s when we were born.

We are the generation that was fully reared in the spirit of ‘better living though chemistry’ before anyone saw the dangers and tried to fight back. This affected every aspect of life including food, medication, recreational drugs, clothing, toiletries, housing, education, and on and on.

You try being born under Nixon, reared under Reagan, and starting your adult phase under W and NOT come out fucked up.

Then there is the part where most of us had boomer parents who sold us out and treated us like accessories.

Can anyone think of another generation discarded the way we were?

Latch key kids left alone with frozen foods full of chemicals, babysat by the worst era of mindless television and ‘Murica-style films, and scared to death of sex & drugs thanks to Ronnie Raygun and Nancy Fucking Raybush.

There is tons of hard-earned wisdom in our band of lost boys and girls that could help make things better. We are thinkers and seekers of truth hidden behind that big, scary, dismissive X foisted upon us by the worst generation of parents in the history of modern parents...

OP u say that as if it is a bad thing

Next time you're in a public environmen, take a moment at just notice the shocking examples of obesity. Especially in women. That alone is reason enough to understand the decrease in life expectancy. No great mystery.

[quote]You try being born under Nixon, reared under Reagan, and starting your adult phase under W and NOT come out fucked up.

If you were born under Nixon, you would’ve been starting your adult phase under Clinton.

Amen R123

R126:

That is technically true if you mean turning 18 and starting the basics.

I was referring to the big adult phase where you finish higher education, start an actual career path, start a family, try to buy a home, etc...

Prince Markie Dee dead at 52.

I'm generation X (43 in May) and I am not doing well at all healthwise. It's difficult to say why exactly at this point.

I make a pretty good living. I've done all I can all my life to live healthfully--I eat pretty well and exercised a lot when I was able to do so. I'm more interested in creative pursuits than in traditional family life, etc. I am chronically single, which undoubtedly has adversely affected my emotional and probably physical well being.

My mother died three years ago at 66, decades earlier than I expected, and that has devastated me; her parents lived to 84 and 88, respectively.

Life has been pretty stressful. Someone above mentioned the HIV/AIDS crisis, and it really did traumatize me and has affected my whole life. I grew up gay in the 80s and 90s when it was taboo at best and commonly condemned at times, depending on the setting. The AIDS crisis made that worse. Sex for me when I was young always felt like a kind of Russian roulette, never knowing if a hook up might end up killing me in a horrible way, but I couldn't resist biological urges. 9/11 happened when I was 21, and moving into adult life with that setting the stage islre obviously traumatic in retrospect than I felt it was at the time. Then all the more recent things, like having eyes opened to the corruption of the country, the depth and extremity of racism in the country, the psychedelic renaissance after having had anti-drug propaganda drilled into me all my young life, is a lot of radical change to integrate.

I feel like millennials have had a harder time in their adult lives because of difficulties with finding work, but reflecting on it, I may think that mainly because news media has dedicated so much attention to the people of that generation from the time they were overparented through adulthood and have consistently ignored generation X. If WWII was the silent generation, then we're the invisible one.

Chadwick Bozeman and Dustin Diamond both my age. Unsettling. Also surprising to see this two paired in a sentence.

Yeah R131, so many have been passing recently.

And yet Boomers are still kicking.

What's going on here?

R82 diabetes and heart disease are because of obesity and sedentary lifestyles.

Of course you're not fat and you run 32 miles a day so that means it's everything else and not your fault, right? The more people go on Keto, low fat, low carb, WW the more everyone gains weight. Everyone eats too fucking much meat and sugar and not enough vegetables and sits on their asses, me included.

It's so sad that not only is GenX the "forgotten generation," but they're also dying young.

They've really gotten the shit end of the stick.

Somehow I figured this all out in 1984. Uncanny? I don't know. But having known this at the age of 21 made me able to survive this long. I'm 57 now and maybe I'll own my own home in a few years. All one ever needs is a room with a view...the rest is extraneous.

[quote] Somehow I figured this all out in 1984

What exactly did you figure out, R135?

Yep, I had quite a few of my old high-school friends just drop like flies as you say. Gen X is like the middle child...the unlucky one. EVERYONE HATES Millennials but, personally, except for a few crazies like my SJW co-worker who runs to HR and backstabs everyone, most I have worked with are ok. However, I also think that they got hit with the worst deal and I really think they will drop as well. Granted, their saving grace was that they didn't smoke or drink as much but hell, loads of Boomers smoked like crazy and are just fine. I think the stress, the hopelessness, the fatigue....I can't imagine being a Millennial and what they go through and what they don't remember in terms of carefree times. Very sad.

I think a big difference for Gen X and Boomers is that America was still industrial for the Boomers. Gen X went through an economy in transition and didn’t do as well economically. We also partied hard in our youth, but smoke and drink less.

R91 Spoken like a true Boomer. Most X-ers I know raised themselves then promptly began working or working and schooling. schooling. "Your parents fought for what they got"? Puh-lease! When BB-ers were able to "take to the streets" it was largely because they had parental support and free State college.

The Greatest Generation notoriously coddled their children to spare them the hard knocks GG grew up with. It is well established that Boomers were the first generation to get parental support *and* expect financial support from their children. I'm not hatin' because there is so much to like about BB-ers. But SPARE us the tall tale that BB hustled while X-ers just watched TV and ate Hot Pockets. It's just not true.

^ am aware of typos, cannot edit.

R139 that is true. BBs did have a fairly stable economy, paid college and came of age in the heyday of expanding higher education because of the Civil Rights movement and it’s true their parents (Greatest Gen) did coddle them. Gen had it rougher Deindustrialization hit right around the time that I graduated from HS. My parents were one generation removed from GG and were feeling the rumbles of Deindustrialization in the late 1960s/1970s. And we haven’t even talked about the decline of the urban core due to underdevelopment.

Another Gen X'er bites the dust.

Ray Reyes of Menudo, age 51.

Humorlessness is deadly, apparently!

Gen-Xers did harder, more potent drugs.

Seem to be but in reality do the statistics bear this out?

Is R135 is 57, he's a boomer, not gen x.