Summary
Faced with inflation, taxes and concerns over the size of Social Security benefits, most Americans are more afraid of going broke in retirement than they are of death.
In total, 64% of respondents across generations said they are more stressed about running out of funds in their golden years than the prospect of death.
Americans say they need $1.26 million to finance a comfortable retirement, yet the median amount saved is $87,000. “Certainly for boomers…inflation is a big deal.”
Well, yeah; if you’re dead, the government and society won’t go out of its way to kick you in the head.
You underestimate the depravity of a large portion of our population.
More to the point, I don’t much care what society does with my head after I’m dead.
Ehhh. I worked in EMS in the US for 15 years, people definitely thought worse of the homeless than the dead.