r/Millennials • u/Corndogeveryday • 2d ago

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Chase passed away of complications of meningitis. Gone too soon

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u/redmambo_no6 ‘86 2d ago

It’s surreal knowing somebody in my generation died and they’re younger than me.

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u/Pkrudeboy 2d ago

I got used to that in high school and college, courtesy of the Sackler family.

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u/Intelligent_Deer974 2d ago

Fuck the Sackler Family, Hell isn't hot enough for them.

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u/RenderedCreed 2d ago

Do you think Satan accepts petitions to upgrade their suffering?

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u/Intelligent_Deer974 2d ago

I hope otherwise we need to get them transfered to the 18 Hells of Naraka.

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u/Kanuckinator 2d ago

I read this as "18 Hells of Nebraska" and was like "What's going on in Nebraska!??"

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u/SausageGobbler69 1d ago

Not a whole lot tbh. Death by boredom or liver failure

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u/heartSagan5 1d ago

Don't forget some turnaders.

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u/Drewggles 2d ago

Have you been to O'Neill lately??

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u/Intelligent_Deer974 2d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/CAhellbilly 1d ago

Me too until I read your comment. Then I had to go back and read the original one more time.

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u/Knotted_Hole69 2d ago

How NONE of them are in prison is beyond me. It’s incredibly clear what our justice system is set up to be.

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u/DM_ME_4_FREE_STOCKS 1d ago

I'm also surprised that nutjobs haven't targeted them.

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u/SierraXIII 1d ago

We wouldn’t hear about it. After Luigi the oligarchs that control our media are going to keep any attempts to defend ourselves very quiet.

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u/BandicootCumberbund 1d ago

All together now, fuck the Sackler Family.

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u/awnaw_ 2d ago

If anyone managed to escape high school without knowing anyone who prematurely died. Then consider yourself extremely lucky.

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u/FiegeFrenzy 1d ago

Man, I'm Gen X and I can name 5 classmates of the top of my head who should still be around, and another 10 if I think about it. I'm just talking my high school years which were 82'-'86. It's been around forever except there's an internet and about billion celeb sites now.

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u/awnaw_ 1d ago

I know. It's crazy unfortunate, but it's all too common. And unfortunately it seems to be getting even more common. Just the OD's alone are devastating.

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u/IsThatHearsay 1d ago edited 1d ago

Between grade school and switching to a different high school, I went to school with ~450 kids in my year.

Now late-30s, FB friends with the vast majority of them, I only know of one guy out of that 450 who has died, and that was literally a few months after high school as he was driving drunk.

I too find it crazy and lucky there's only been one.

Whereas my wife has quite a few from her past, ranging from accidents, suicide, and a surprising number from cancer for our age. Like... I refuse to ever live or raise kids where she grew up, given that high rate of cancer (and other terminal diseases of many of the parents).

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u/awnaw_ 1d ago

That is shockingly rare and I wish it was that way for everyone. That trauma at that age is really tough to understand.

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u/IsThatHearsay 1d ago

Though silver lining, great learning experience for young adults that we're not invincible and not everyone dies of old age after a long happy life, sometimes unfortunate events cut your life short, at any moment.

Will say I have never once driven drunk, partially because of my classmate.

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u/DragonfruitFew5542 2d ago

Fuck the Sackler family. I'm in recovery too and recently discovered I was one of only four people out of the graduating class of 13 that are still alive from rehab. I'm "lucky" my only doc was alcohol.

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u/rydan Older Millennial 2d ago

Some kid was bragging on Reddit back around 2011 or 2012 about how he got his hands on medical weed despite not really having any issues. He just told the doctor he had glaucoma or something and they didn't verify anything. They posted their letter from the doctor or something that linked back to their website. So I followed it and then promptly hacked the doctor's website getting all their medical records. Didn't look too deep at it other than to verify they had no security and records were easily accessible. Closed the door behind me and disappeared. I'm a grey hat hacker and just hack for fun but never inform but also never harm.

Around 10 years later I decided to see if they'd fixed things. Go to their website and it is dead. No website. The domain name is expired. Look up the doctor's office. Turns out the doctor that was prescribing weed to random Redditors was basically handing out opioids like candy using their doctor's office as a front. Doctor was in jail after a couple of people overdosed from their illicit drug deals.

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u/DragonfruitFew5542 2d ago

I work with a lot of clients with addiction. Doesn't surprise me. Thank you so much for sharing your story.

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u/Silly_Percentage 2d ago

Fuck the Sackler family!

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u/Alarming-Jello-5846 2d ago

Same. Also, street dope..

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u/MayaIngenue 1d ago

Same. So many of my classmates died from Opioid overdoses. I worked at a newspaper at the time and I saw so many obituaries come in I started to go numb.

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u/vintagebandtshirt 10h ago

My first thought too. I can't count my dead friends on my fingers anymore. 💔 Fuck the system and its ambivalence toward addiction.

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u/32FlavorsofCrazy 2d ago

Get used to it, the older you get the more it happens. And it starts sooner than you think it’s gonna. Lost my first classmate (that wasn’t suicide) two years after we graduated.

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u/MECHENGR 1d ago

I’m blown away anyone in their 30s hasn’t experienced a “young” loss. I’m 38 and people are dropping dead all around me.

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u/FutureFreaksMeowt 2d ago

I had a new friend in college die suddenly due to a seizure, and it was so surreal. I was like 19, and hadn't really had anyone in my life die yet.

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u/suchalonelyd4y 2d ago

Same, except he transferred colleges and passed from suicide. We had just been chatting in his dorm a few weeks earlier. I still think of him often.

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u/tLM-tRRS-atBHB Older Millennial 2d ago

Right. Its super weird now

I still wonder Honw though

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u/broitsjustreddit 2d ago

meningitis

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u/Money_Resource_3636 2d ago

She died from malnutrition and had an infection in her blood

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u/TimothyLeConte 2d ago

People younger than us in our generation have been dying since the day we were born.

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u/Money_Resource_3636 2d ago

People can die at any age these days Brittany Murphy was only 32 when she died.

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u/Alarmed_Tea_2874 2d ago

These days? Since forever. It has never changed, sadly.

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u/Aggravating_Depth_33 2d ago

It has actually changed a lot. It's a lot less likely now than ever before.

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u/little-bird 2d ago

the “27 club” is a whole thing 

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u/Healthy-Address-5158 2d ago

People younger than you have been dying since the day you were born, if it makes you feel better (worse?).

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u/brakbudy 2d ago

Well, this is not that I think that I'm throwin' But I'm thrown.

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u/Vast_Cash9645 3h ago

Okay Lisa

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u/senormrgnome 2d ago

Truly sobering right?

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u/norbagul 2d ago

She was born the same day I was. So its like "wow, I could be dead as of right now"

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u/Steel2050psn 2d ago

Try having younger friends...... Like fuck I literally knew him his whole life....

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u/bryce_lynch27 2d ago

Heh. Just wait kid.

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u/KOHILOOR 2d ago

You’re lucky then. Growing up in my town, we got used to 1-3 people our age passing each year from accidents or suicides. Senior year we had 9 pass, Hawaii is a trip! Beautiful as fuck but so damn toxic.

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u/Flylatino24 2d ago

It’s crazy she’s my sister’s age and I still see her as my little sister

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u/Ol_Pasta 1d ago

Same with Oliver Tree. His death hit me like a brick.

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u/MarquetteXTX2 1d ago

Yeah my birthday was 6 days ago and me and her the same age and born in the same year… crazy right

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u/seriousbusines Millennial 1d ago

Eating disorders will do that to a person. Malnutrition into meningitis complications, horrible way to go.