[interroboink]

> is literally “post death” in Latin

Yes; I think what I described matches that meaning?

Post-death, as in: "it's over," "activity has halted," "no more work being done."

Death does not necessarily have a bad/negative connotation. It's just the end of something.

This is in contrast to the original comment: "something that went so wrong you had to kill it." Death does not imply something went wrong or that it happened forcefully.

I guess "autopsy" generally is talking about "finding the cause of death" so maybe that has a more negative connotation ("something (bad) happened, causing death, let's find it").

Ah, words with their fuzzy meanings (:

[WD-42]

> Post-death, as in: "it's over," "activity has halted," "no more work being done”

Which makes even less sense as we all know software is never done, unless it truly is dead.

[vitorfblima]

In the context of a game it applies. A game can be "done", as in shipped, no more updates, patches, etc.