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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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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
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.
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.
I agree 💀
"deleted by creator"
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!
I agree Deleted makes sense
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.
Sick band name
Dammit, you beat me too it
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.
But is there something cooler?
Corpse boom?
Grave Wave?
HEARSE FARCE
Boomer doom boom?
Morpheus toon makes room for the death boom.
Also 'boom' sounds a lot more fun, like a party with games or refreshments.
Boomer death death boom.
We just want them to give us their houses.
Best we can do is a huge wave of reverse mortgages and Medicaid seizures due to end of life medical bills.
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.
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.
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.