Date:    Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:38:56 EDT
<br>From:    Bapopik <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: "Died at home" (suicide euphemism)
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<br>     This is from the International Herald Tribune, 6 April 1998, pg. 1, cols.
<br>1-3:
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<br>Wave of Teenage Suicides Stuns a Town
<br>American Community Without Violence Grapples to Find Root Causes
<br>By Pam Belluck
<br>New York Times Service
<br>(...)  In the last three years, Pierre--the capital of South Dakota, though a
<br>city of only 13,000 people--has been wrenched by a series of suicides, most of
<br>them young people.  Eleven people from 13 to 23, including eight teenagers,
<br>have killed themselves.
<br>     The suicides have begun to haunt Pierre (pronounced PEER), which sits
<br>beside the Missouri River and has one high school, one hospital and one
<br>shopping mall.  In the center of this state in the heart of the Great Plains,
<br>Pierre is such a safe place that the police captain rarely locks his house,
<br>and he cannot remember the last time someone so much as stole a car.
<br>(pg. 11, col. 5 continuation)  Still, for a long time, Pierre has been torn
<br>over how to handle the suicides.  Newspaper obituaries of the suicides used
<br>the euphemism "died at home."
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<br>     Why "died at home"?  Has this been used before?
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