I was talking about this with my g/f when watching Clerks 3.

It seems that no other generation seems to be facing their mortality much sooner than Gen Xers.

Clerks 3 is a movie about two old Gen Xers coping with getting old, having heart attacks, coping with grief, struggling with loneliness, while the world passes them by.

I think this line of thinking is a casual example of survivorship bias.

That some boomers like Ozzy Osbourne are still alive is just a freak accident. There have been plenty of baby boomer people who died comparatively young.

Longevity is part genetics, part lifestyle, and part just dumb luck. Unfortunately Steve just got a bit unlucky, or bad genetics, or both. Or maybe in spite of his alcohol- and drug-free lifestyle he just had a really bad diet.

Lemmy and Prince being two that come to mind immediately.

yeah, unlike rock stars with wild lives, I did expect a guy like him to live long

because of his sort of ascetic impulses in other domains one doesn’t imagine him as particularly hard-living, but this 2002 ilxor thread (bumped for his death) suggests that he had his first heart attack way back: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?bo...

edit: viral pericarditis, actually, before it was a hot topic

Oh, thanks for the link. I had no idea.

His story about the band cut on an album budget is mind blowing too.

uhh because the only Gen Xers currently dying are the ones that are dying young?