This more or less tracks with what I'm seeing and what the all-cause death rates seem to suggest.
People around me seem to be dying at a faster clip, and it seems to me to be noticeable and yet not quite dramatic enough to really raise alarms. There definitely seem to be more fatal heart attacks and strokes than there used to be, but the increase is moderate and mostly among older people with co-morbidities. (From what I've seen, it seems like people whose heart attacks wouldn't be too surprising given age/health are all having massive fatal hearth attacks instead of survivable ones, while the number of people having chest pain and going to the hospital and recovering seems to have declined to the point of non-existent. It's like heart attacks have gotten worse?) There have been a few shocking deaths (by blood clot or heart attack) in the last few years among younger people in my wider circle, which were attributed to "just one of those freak things" - but again, not enough to really catch people's attention. One healthy middle-aged person I knew died in his sleep for no apparent reason - but just the one that I've heard of. Cancer diagnoses, both new and recurring, also seem to have modestly increased.
From what I've seen of all-cause mortality data, it's a similar story - death rates are going up, but at a modest pace. And it's hard to figure out how much is due to an aging population and how much due to something else. Nobody in the mainstream media seems to want to investigate the data, of course.
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People around me seem to be dying at a faster clip, and it seems to me to be noticeable and yet not quite dramatic enough to really raise alarms. There definitely seem to be more fatal heart attacks and strokes than there used to be, but the increase is moderate and mostly among older people with co-morbidities. (From what I've seen, it seems like people whose heart attacks wouldn't be too surprising given age/health are all having massive fatal hearth attacks instead of survivable ones, while the number of people having chest pain and going to the hospital and recovering seems to have declined to the point of non-existent. It's like heart attacks have gotten worse?) There have been a few shocking deaths (by blood clot or heart attack) in the last few years among younger people in my wider circle, which were attributed to "just one of those freak things" - but again, not enough to really catch people's attention. One healthy middle-aged person I knew died in his sleep for no apparent reason - but just the one that I've heard of. Cancer diagnoses, both new and recurring, also seem to have modestly increased.
From what I've seen of all-cause mortality data, it's a similar story - death rates are going up, but at a modest pace. And it's hard to figure out how much is due to an aging population and how much due to something else. Nobody in the mainstream media seems to want to investigate the data, of course.