To Die For

Millennials May Not Be Next In Line To Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil, But That Doesn’t Mean We’re Not Ready

MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE climate change-induced destruction is possible within our lifetimes (30 years, folks), maybe we’re finally taking umbrage against an anti-ageing culture or maybe we simply can’t resist the allure of a taboo. Whatever the reason, millennials are talking and thinking about death more than any other generation before them. In a study of more than 2000 recently bereaved people, UK funeral directors CPJ Field found that those aged 18 to 34 were more prepared for death than any other age group, while a Refinery29 survey of 300 people (mostly millennial women) found that 71 per cent had imagined their own deaths.