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i love the modern web
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The term "unalive" is so cringey yet dystopian that I don't know whether to feel embarrassed or concerned when I hear it.
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It started out as a fun way to make light of Disney refusing to allow the word "Kill" to show up in the cartoon adaptation of Ultimate Spider-Man, now when I hear it in a youtube true crime video I want to game end myself.
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Yeeted right into the search history of life
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And the ironic thing is that episode literally had deadpool in it. So dead's fine but kill isn't
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was that in the comics or cartoon?
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Cartoon, Deadpool leaned on the fourth wall to say "Something's preventing me from saying the k-word, so I guess I'm trying to unalive these people."
It was funny because it was being used to mock censorship instead of being a form of it
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I wouldn't worry about that one too much. Death has a ton of euphemisms to soften the concept; "passing away", "transitioning", "going home", etc and so on and whatnot.
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My grandpa transitioned, she's now my grandma
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Sorry for your loss. On the other hand, congrats
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Oooh, a trans-grand-parent!
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Kicked the bucket
Bought the farm
Took their leave
Adjourned to rest
Took the long napWhat are some more?
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Punched their ticket Meeting the lord No longer amongst the living Pining for the fjords
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I'm waiting for that word to become so popular it also gets censored, it'd be hilarious
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I've got a list of backups:
- cooked
- spaced (see The Expanse)
- inhumed (as opposed to exhumed as one might do in removing a corpse from a grave; see Terry Pratchett's Discworld's Assassins Guild lingo)
- processed (as one does to food using a food processor)
- isekai'd (for the weaboos)
- truck-kun'd
- terminated (for when the Terminator movies become popular again)
- old yeller'd
- returned to sender (until the postal system collapses)
- X trimester aborted
- Peter Pan'd (as in, thrown off a cliff and expected to fly)
- Mufasa'd (or any notable fictional character whose death was a major plot point)
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i like the term "zeroed" from cyberpunk as in "they got zeroed" (unsure if that is the correct spelling)
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I'd just take them from the parrot sketch.
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POOLLLYY! POOLLLYYYY!! WAKE UP POOOLLLYY!!! bangs the parrot on the table See? He's DEAD!
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Worms games have a nice list of expressions for managing kills (or drowning)
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As a Pratchett fan, I have to say unalive <> inhumed; since "unalive" = dead whereas "inhume" = kill
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Old yeller'd hits different
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Most of these have clear other meanings that wouldn't work being turned into a substituted for killed or died
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Had their violent delights
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