User talk:Bnordstewart

Welcome!

Hello, Bnordstewart, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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The language of Suicide

I'm afraid you have come rather late to this party. Wikipedians have discussed the language of suicide until eyes have glazed over. The verb 'to commit' is not associated universally with crime. We Commit to a relationship. We Commit bodies to the ground, to the deep. We commit ourselves to obligations. People commit good and bad acts daily. The verb is normal, effective, and usual.

If one "takes one's life" to whom or where does one take it? It is a euphemism, and WIkipedia, while attempting sensitivity about events, does not use euphemisms.

I have reverted the edit request that was made on your behalf. I know you will wish to discuss this with a view to changing it. Please hold that discussion where it will be most appropriate, at Talk:Suicide. You may achieve changing consensus there, and I wish you the best of luck. If you change it there then changes will trickle down to other articles on suicide. Fiddle Faddle 20:33, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]