Why have so many of my friends died by age 45, and is this normal?

[ThisSiteSux]

I'll be 45 next month and all my friends are dead. I was popular in the best decades for friendship 1980 through 1999. I had so many close friends nobody knocked on my door they just walked in. I didn't make plans they just showed up at my house because something was always happening. This 4th of July my first love and one of my best friends died. I have 2 friends left. Everyone is dead. I feel a little too young for this to happen. My grandparents went through World war II and still had friends attend their funerals. If I don't make more friends or the last two don't die I'll have the most pathetic funeral ever... And it can't come soon enough

[SueShe]

A major cause for early death is unhealthy lifestyle that takes a toll on the body.

It is no secret that in the US, junk food consumed helps increase the death tolls due to obesity, lack of movement and diabetis. This is a sad result of the way society develops in America.

This unhealthy living is the major cause for increased cancers and society is paying a high price for living the easy life and not eating healthy.

Your grandparents did not have that kind of life. They had to work hard and knew that good eating habits were important. I am sure your grandmother cooked all her meals and did not have takeout brought to her place on a daily basis.

[ThisSiteSux]

We grew up the grandkids of the great depression take out wasn't our diet. I'm Gen X your thinking the millennials and the zoomers.

[Anonymous]

If you are 45 then you wouldn't have been born yet in 1980. You would only have been 8 in 1989 so it would be difficult for that to have been one of your “best decades.” At your end date of 1999 you would only have been 18, just when things start getting really good.

If you go into a funeral home and talk to the guy there he will tell you most people he sees, by far, are 80, 90 and above. The actuarial life expectancy keeps going up, so it's not statistically possible for people in general to be dying that young. If it's happening in your group it would be an enormous fluke. The average life expectancy in the U. S. right now is 78.

[AngryCarl3]

I'm 66 and 80% of my friends are still alive.

Don't worry about your funeral though, you won't be there to see it.

[ThisSiteSux]

That is a good point but I kinda wished my kids would be there

[Lliam]

What did your friends die from and how many got covid jabs?

[ThisSiteSux]

Boznia, Afghanistan war, Iraq war, drugs, suicide, gang life, just being from Philly, cancer,. I don't know anyone that got the Jab. We don't play that shit in Philly.

[Lliam]

Oh. I hear you.
I lost some of my friends to motorcycle accidents and drugs when I was young. As I got older, many more started dropping off from things like cancer, Parkinsons and heart disease.
It really sucks. I empathize with you, bro.

[FrodoSkywalker007]

You are depressing

[ThisSiteSux]

You will get there too if you live long enough. I doubt it