Rant

[bellinghman]

There's a meme currently going round - it's one of those multiple question interview ones. Among its questions are:

If you could bring back anyone that has passed, who would it be?

I'm sorry, but if I ever encounter the author of that question, I'll have to give her a real bitch slapping. 'has passed'? For fuck's sake, are you talking about someone going past you in the street? Yes? No? No, I thought not.

You're talking about death. There's a good, short word you could have used, one that takes less typing. It's 'died'. Don't pretend it doesn't occur - it does. To all of us - no-one gets out of this alive. This sort of milquetoast euphemism is an attempt to deny one of life's most basic features.

Aarrgghh!!

Comments

[knell.livejournal.com]

...and lines like "She lost her husband" make it sound like carelessness (did you look behind the sofa?).

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Being a literalist, I may even assume the aforesaid husband to have run off with someone else. Which can be unfortunate if the object of that assignation is the Grim Reaper.

(I suspect that Gaiman's Death is slightly more appropriate for this image than Pratchett's.)

[vatine]

I can well imagine Temperance Brennan running off with Pratchett's Death (but would it result in a TV series called "Bones Squared"?).