We don't have the lexicon so we speak in euphemisms, of someone passing. We're afraid of making it worse. Sometimes people are so afraid of saying the wrong thing, of being clumsy, that they don't acknowledge it at all. But this hurts the person grieving far more than the clumsiest of cack-handed words. It makes it feel even lonelier.
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