• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    IIRC, Gen-X was the first generation in the US with a suicide epidemic.

    EDIT: Nope. It’s officially Gen-Z’s title. Congrats?

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      6 days ago

      I think millennials in the military had it first. The military couldn’t figure out why fighting pointless wars was causing more of their members to commit suicide.

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        In the eighties, there were a lot of news reports about the high and climbing rates of suicide in teens, whixh led to my original comment. After a little research, it turns out that Gen-X is having a suicide problem now.

        So if both Gen-X and their kids (Gen-Z) are committing suicide now, is it really a generational thing, or is it just that today sucks really hard?

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          Gen-X here, can confirm. The World of Tomorrow is today, and it sucks hard. Every dystopian sci-fi of my youth is coming true. I am not sure I want to know what the future is going to look like.