Because, when people are grieving, it's extremely important to badger them about using the right words as decided by some piece of shit with a blog and a master's degree.
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As a mental health clinician who talks about suicide with patients on a regular basis, I find it is usually best to be direct and say “killed himself”.
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The judges will accept this answer
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incidentally my headcanon is that "died of sorrow" is an old euphemism for suicide
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Does kind of make sense, presumably the usage comes from the fact that suicide used to be a crime. That's the main type of thing you "commit". And it's not a crime any more, so maybe change the phrase
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It's still a crime in a lot of places. You can't be punished for succeeding at it, but the state can intervene to stop you, and they can prosecute people for assisting with it. It's more like 'no human is illegal', an attempt to meme it into reality.
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Where have you seen this?
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Look at the replies tohttps://twitter.com/MFRemillard/status/1025149491228409856 …
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This is rubbish. There are plenty of symptoms that are also actions: chorea, snoring.
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In normal use, one simply “snores.” And I’m not sure what the convention is for chorea. “Exhibits”? I think that whether an action is voluntary probably has a lot to do with its conventional usages.
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In the case of homicide pursuant to a psychological defect, one says 'committed murder during a manic episode' or some such.
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I’m pretty sure I’ve heard “victim of suicide” more than once
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yep, it's a thing and I especially hate it. saying to people who kill themselves bc they feel like to go on is to go on being a victim of circumstance and ending it is the only agency they have left, "nope, not *even* that". supererogatory cruelty.
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Alternatives we'll use in 2030 - 1 to experience suicide 2 to terminally self-hurt 3 to resolve one's suicidal tendencies
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Maybe I’m not looking hard enough but I’ve not seen “took their own life” discussed in this thread. Common media reporting phraseology in Australia.
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