A recent news item reports that suicide rates are up by a third in the last twenty years, especially among those aged 45 to 64.
The Boomers are not handling the later chapters of life well. Sadly, no surprise.
Most Freepers seem to fall into this age range. Hope we’ll be doing better than this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws0_EyGdv-w
That is an interesting point.
A generation who's parents were emotionally distant and angry, the Boomers rebelled and lost themselves in a sense that they really had all the answers to what they perceived as what was wrong in the world. Free love, drugs, and selfish hedonism was their chosen path. All along the way they were convinced that there was no God and that self actualization was the true way to peace and happiness. They sought out and experimented with every sensory potential like drugs, but like Ezekiel, the great priest in the Old Testament, it was all vanity, all chasing the wind.
And, I wonder if you are correct. In the twilight of their years their sense of mortality has now become unbearably inescapable. And an overwhelming sense of futility of life haunting ever louder, all those wasted years, and for what? They have invested so thoroughly in their humanistic, liberal religion and now in the autumn of their years they are empty and facing an eternity unknown.
Yeah, maybe too philosophical here, but this subject has been on my mind and you pointed it out.
What the heck is a "boomer" anyways..? I always thought it was someone born between 1945 and 1950...(?)
I’m in that age group....it’s the LIB boomers that must be having a hard time!
It's the antidepressants. But if you even bring that up, you are shouted down as "anti-science" or a conspiracy theorist. Or whatever.