Certainly there is an uptick, and the lockdowns ending a huge amount of preventative care and causing months or years long backups to see specialists etc. people didn’t get their heart scans or their cancer found in time etc etc etc. my colleagues and I have come to the conclusion it’s just everything at once. OD’s and suicides are a huge portion of “died suddenly” stories, as that’s historically been a more polite way of saying what actually happens in an obituary post, always bugs me that people latch onto that one phrase so strongly, 🤷‍♂️