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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know, but when I was a teenager and my mom suddenly died, hearing "passed away" made me feel very lonely, as if others wanted to distance themselves from what had happened to my mom, and this kind of language allowed them to do so. They could keep "died" from touching them by using euphemisms, though of course I couldn't do the same. Because she died. My mom died. She was dead. This--"passed away"--was obviously not the only reason I felt that way, but in general, people are super uncomfortable about death and don't know what to say, so they avoid the topic or the person who is grieving, and I think the euphemistic language is just one part of that. But for me, it's "died." Because when I was a 16 year old and my mom died, she didn't "pass": she just died. It wasn't a welcome, peaceful, soothing "passing away." It was a traumatic and sudden "died." And I really resented the soft-voiced "passed away" from people who were able to say that.[/quote]
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