So when "unalive" becomes too loaded to use, what'll be the new soft uwu way of babytalking to adults when discussing death
Y'all understand that's what happens when you choose to do this with language right? It doesn't stop. You self-censor and find a more acceptable term for something emotionally loaded, but the new word will eventually become too loaded too. So eventually you'll have to come up with something else. You've started a cycle that wasn't necessary but as long as you keep engaging with it, you have to ask yourself: when does it end? Does it end?
(The answer, btw, is that it ends with loss of language for the thing. "unalive" eventually leads to not discussing death at all because people are too afraid they'll say the wrong thing. So people grieve alone. They grapple with suicidal ideation alone. People become more isolated and lose necessary language that is precious and vital and we lose all the expression of grief and death and the inherent love and value they're connected with because fear overpowers it. We don't have to, though. You can just stop using words like "unalive" and say "death" and "dead" and "suicide" because they're supposed to feel hard. They refer to parts of life that are hard.)
























