Current Events > Every time someone dies articles say "(Name) Dies at 75" or whateve

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Or whatever.

I'm not trying to sugar coat it necessarily. We are all going to die. But "dies" sounds like we accomplished everything possible in life but ultimately failed.

There is no winning score for anyone at the end. The headline is never "Stan Lee lived a long amazing life and has now passed on"

Instead its

Stan Lee dies at 75
Ann Rice dies.
Neil Armstrong Dies
(Insert name here) Dies.

It's just a shitty way to have a headline. All it is is a scoreboard of deaths. No celebration of their long and full lives. Even if you live a long, full good life you still "lose" at the end. Its not disrespectful and it's just factual but it's so shitty.

It's like saying "Well. They lost." in a game where nobody can ever "win."

AzurexNightmare posted...

It's like saying "Well. They lost." in a game where nobody can ever "win."

Now youre getting it.

Accolon, age 89, transfers consciousness into superior cybernetic body.

Its not as bad as the medical field when they sometimes use expired like the person was old cheese you tossed out

This seems obligatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tX6jdoruH8

AzurexNightmare posted...

The headline is never "Stan Lee lived a long amazing life and has now passed on"

because thats the body of the article...

The headline says the point. "X died" is the point. All the stuff they did or what happened to them is the body of the essay

thronedfire2 posted...

Its not as bad as the medical field when they sometimes use expired like the person was old cheese you tossed out

Theres another term they use I cant remember. I remember hearing it a few times when my dad died and was like.. wow, that is HARSH

Because headlines take up space.