Died or Passed away?

Guessing this account will both die & pass away within February 2026.

Died, because death is blunt, and the sober reality of it needs to be faced, there's no way around it only facing it.

Lost… as in "I lost my father last year"
Where did you lose him, in a shopping centre, on the beach? … silly phrase.

I always think of Oscar Wilde when someone says that…

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

What did he die of?

The big C.

Cancer?

No... He drowned.

Died. Don't believe in passive phrases.

Apparently my sister in laws mother grew her angel wings.

I did manage to not comment on how silly she must've looked with wings poking out of her back. But it was tough.

Well aren't you great for managing not to slag off someone in how they phrase something in the wake of their mother's death. Whatever you think of the phrasing, at the end of the day your sister in law's mother died & you shouldn't be patting yourself on the back for managing not to make an idiotic comment on how she chose to phrase it.

I had a guy I was kinda seeing at the time of my dad's death make a joke about a music piece from the funeral mass 2 days after it. Time and place. And that was neither.

And here i thought it was just me, I dont like saying anyone died or is dead, it seems disrespectful to the person that died and as you said a little blunt, I always say passed away

They've crossed over the river Styx.

Equivalents for died and passed away also exist in other languages. Spanish has "fallecer" (to pass away) and "morir" (to die) for example. It's good to have two verbs describing the same thing with a slightly different feel to each version.

There are a lot of very weird oulwans (and it's always oulwans) out there, who feel some morbid, creepy urge to comment on total strangers' RIP notifications. Especially if it's a particularly tragic death of a young person. There's an awful falseness to it.

a kildare mam x