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by FoundersGrotesk 2125 days ago
The death of a loved one is almost always a personal tragedy, regardless of age. Overuse of a word doesn’t make it any less so.
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You're simply changing the meaning of the word then and also, I would suggest, debasing the complex experience of death by suggesting it is a singular, universal experience of 'personal tragedy'.

Everyone loses loved ones and in many cases it is not experienced as tragedy but as death being a normal and essential part of life.