To hate the term 'bleeding out'...

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I mean you're not going to be 'bleeding in' are you? I've seen it in lots of reports of someone seriously injured. Just seems sensationalist and crude somehow.

What exactly is disrespectful about it?

I find your use of the term "annihilate" very disrespectful and inaccurate for the context you used it.

Yes, I feel it's very American. And only recently used by the average Brit. Which in itself isn't bad but that's probably why I read it as being a 'sensationalist' term used in a really delicate situation.

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It’s a well known and used term. As PPs have said, it has a specific meaning and describes the seriousness of the situation. If a bystander saw someone unconscious and bleeding heavily, it’s the correct term to use. I don’t find it disrespectful, they are describing what they’re seeing.

Okay you never said it was your greatest concern but you are concerned enough to write a post about it. My point remains. You mustn't have any actual real life concerns. Anyway you're not being very nice to me so, I'm bleedin' outta here!

I think I'd notice if some poor soul was bleeding to death/had massive blood loss in front of me.

I do have eyes.

But then, you can't argue with stupid.

I find it much more disrespectful that some anti-Semitic twat thought to go and slaughter Jewish people while they were praying on their holiest day of the year.

And the people who were murdered this morning presumably did bleed out if they were stabbed.

My heart goes out to everyone affected by this morning's horrific event. I can't quite come to terms with it.

I prefer the term exsanguinating, second only to exacerbation as big words i like to attempt to spell at work (when i started it was all paper records and it took me about a year to learn how to consistenly spell exacerbation correctly particularly at 4am on a night shift (now it's all digital complete with autocorrect-yeh!).

"bleeding out" is not a formal or official medical term. You might hear medical professionals use it informally, but there is nothing wrong with non medical people using it as a clear and understandable descriptive phrase for someone losing a significant amount of blood.

I've always understood "bleeding out" to mean bleeding to death. As far as I know it's yet another import from America. And as far as I'm concerned, America can bleeding well have it back.

I get you might not like it but it’s a valid term. I have a blood disorder and hate the use of the word ‘clot’ to describe a silly person or act. My baby was stillborn because my blood clotted through the placenta preventing his growth but I can hardly get upset about it when I hear or read that word. Yes it’s very horrible and hurts but I’m not predisposing to police other people’s language.

Your the one that is getting offended and winding your self up over a word.

I saw those words in a BBC news report earlier. I felt that the BBC used to be better at avoiding inclusion of such gratuitous graphic details and that the BBC writer should realise that a person's loved ones could do without having that image put in their minds if they read that report.

So I voted YANBU on this thread because I took the timing of it to be in that context. I feel that it was completely unnecessary of them to word it so graphically in the report. Although the maybe in shock bystander blurted it out, that does not mean they must include it.

But I can also see why some posters are saying yabu about parts of the opost appearing to consider it to be an invalid term in general.

Bleeding out isn’t the same as bleeding from a paper cut.

They do on ER. They are always yelling "HE'S BLEEDING OUT!"

I'd have thought that blood loss was the least of AB's worries.

I probably should have quoted opp reply, not the question itself, but I'd say it should have been left out, not worded differently.

It being such a gratuitous detail is what I find disrespectful about it having been quoted in that BBC report at all, however worded.

I wouldn’t listen to the song by Imagine Dragons by the same name in that case! just that it repeats the phrase “bleeding out” many times!

ER is American.