Why are people saying 'Unalived'?

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At least online - I've never heard it in real life! I've come across posts claiming that the nazis 'unalived' the jews, and another where a woman with schizophrenia 'unalived' her children! It sounds so incredible disrespectful. Nothing else about the posts read like they were trolls or anything, just perfectly factual. I don't see what possible benefit there could be to using that (bizarre!) term rather than 'killed'?

Because I think on some platforms death, die, dead, kill etc are banned and will get you deleted.

I believe its because algorithms don't like works like died and suicide and killed etc so people are using more creative words

Because of censorship on social media platforms, such as YouTube and Tiktok.

I'm with you OP I absolutely hate this expression.

I never knew it was because of algorithms. I thought it was an even more twee version of passed away or the even more cringe, passed.

Other platforms ban certain words so people say things like unalived (killed), grape/d (rape/d), PDF file (paedophile) to get around it. Using the correct words will get the video / post taken down or your comment deleted.

Me too. Cringe when I read it.

It’s disgusting and disrespectful

It’s all down to social media and leaking into real life.

as pp says, it’s widely thought that certain words will suppress the views your videos get.

Often videos with the words suicide in, get taken down in seconds.

I think it's awful.

In order to prevent suicide, people (particularly younger people) need to know about it. They need to know that there's an alternative and that people will help them.

Someone who left my kids' school a couple of years ago has recently committed suicide. It was completely and utterly hushed up and I found out quite by chance on an official website in the course of doing some unrelated work. My kids both knew and liked this kid and nobody has whispered a word of it anywhere.

Agree with pp. Your posts will get taken down and you will eventually get banned from that platform.

I think (?) it's something to do with governments telling platforms they cannot glorify death or murder (or self harm) in case children see it. So they blanket delete/ban via a bot.

Surely by now the algorithms should be banning this sort of euphemism too, especially as it's more likely to be used in untoward ways than the proper terms?

Yes, hate passed or passed away instead of died.

Sadly it is well researched that suicide is contagious and that is why they tend to hush it up. This is because those teetering on the brink are likely to respond by thinking 'if they did it, I could do it' I have seen this myself in a workplace many years ago where we had a spate of suicides - these days we may have been able to put in more support but in those days it wasn't well understood.