Poll: How do you say someone is not Alive?

[ThatLankyBastard]

I usually just say Died... Or something to that extent...

It's death, why sugarcoat it?

 

[brooklynlord]

Hmmm. I translate "not alive" as forgotten. Shakespear is dead, and his works survive, and he is alive in his works.... i think...

You know by that peticualar way he writes. And other stuff.
So i picked other.

 

[Haydyn]

Depends. In video games, it's dead. In real life, a person died, but I don't refer to them being dead. If I wanna joke around either in a video game or about something or someone the people I am talking to and myself didn't know on a personal level, I will say in a somewhat funny tone "They are with Jesus now."

 

[Yureina]

Depends on who it was, and how important they were to me. I tend to be more respectful towards those that I held dear, but for most I would just say "dead"

 

[Voidrunner]

To date I've only ever used dead as passed away seems more to refer to passing into another life , though I suppose I might use passed away if the situation was very emotional.

 

[Craorach]

Dead. Died. Death is part of life and shouldn't be feared, we raise our children and coddle them with the idea of heaven and people "going away" "just sleeping" etc... life is a cycle and they need to accept that from birth.