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 💀
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Yes indeed
I mean, thats kind of taking the religious route.
Unless you’re claiming the greatest generation is coming back from the dead as zombies just to kill their children.
…which is totally a thing they would do.
Who’d have thought me being a tosser and replying to the wrong comment would spark such a theological debate!
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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.
Morpheus toon makes room for the death boom.
Also ‘boom’ sounds a lot more fun, like a party with games or refreshments.
But is there something cooler?
Corpse boom?
Grave Wave?
HEARSE FARCE
Boomer doom boom?
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
Dammit, you beat me too it
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.
It’s going to be a lot cooler, too… On average these people have destroyed the world at a higher rate than those before them.
Boomer death death boom.
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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.
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.
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.
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!
I like to call them death waves because that is what we called them in Cities Skylines.
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
We can only fucking hope…
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
This website keeps coming up. They do a great job.
The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, because they’ll trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.
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.
One can only hope.
