When did 'Passing' become the new word for died????

Tigerpaws57

Just use the term that suits you surely and let others do the same? Can't see why you would need to feel irritated or annoyed.

exactly my feeling

An Americanism. Passed away is ok but just saying someone has passed could be anything, passed by; passed through; passed out. It's similar to birthdays. Everyone is turning an age these days.

My grandmother always used the words "Got away" when someone died.

Just use the term that suits you surely and let others do the same? Can't see why you would need to feel irritated or annoyed.

Nurse training stressed the need to avoid the verb 'lost' when explaining a patient's death.
As in, I am so sorry we have lost x.

Lost? Well which ward was he going to?

Funnily enough, I used to like both terms, particularly " lost"

Now I see why they are easier to use.

My mum sadly died unexpectedly recently, l was notified by my son who said Grandma has just passed peacefully. I can only assume it was easier for him to say than my mum had died

Indeed 'passing' has been around for quite a while.

I cannot stand the phrase. I will always say 'died' or 'has died', or 'died last year, or whenever'.
I have no idea why people say it; I mean passed where? To where? Passing????

Not in my vocabulary. I use dead or died.

It has been current for some time and I find it intensely annoying. Died is the correct term.

Passing and lost. I’m almost tempted to come out with a facetious remark when someone uses the words.

Yes, maybe, Witzend - "passed away" is a gentle sort of death I suppose

I heard this first when we lived in America in the early 1980s.
Not sure how long it's been in use here in the UK.

I don't like it either.

Well, we don’t use it here!

IMO passed/passed away have been used for a long time, though. Some people are very squeamish about the D-word, I’m not sure why. Do they think ‘passed’ somehow sounds less final?

No one has to say it

It's ambiguous too. Passed? What? An exam, driving test.?

I could not agree more, the word irritates me and I refuse to say somebody has passed-where to?