Please don’t use euphemisms for death
Today I’m reminded of a lesson I learned in a reporting 101 class:
People die.
People do not pass away. They do not meet Jesus. They do not cross over. They are not lost.
People die.
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But sometimes they can’t get the word out….when your GG died, I heard myself say that she had passed (having never used that term before in my life). It took me a while to be able to say she had died.
words of wisdom (?) from an old aunt -