The top 10 euphemisms for death
USA – Out of a collection of 6.5 million obituaries, more than 5 million of them chose the term ‘passed away’.
USA – Out of a collection of 6.5 million obituaries, more than 5 million of them chose the term ‘passed away’.
USA – I’ve seen it too many times to count. My husband has been a funeral director for most of his adult life, and I worked alongside him for almost seven years. And the story, while always tragic and heartbreaking in its own way, is almost always the same.
IL – Social media, especially Facebook, profoundly has changed the way we announce death and/or its imminence, the way we find out about loss, the way we mourn, the language we use to comfort the grieving and the status of those who do the comforting.