Commentary: Euphemisms are Dangerous
Updated: 2022-07-25- By: Dr. Floyd
- Summary: A simple reminder that euphemisms are dangerous.
- Tags: thanatology, psychology, counseling, truth
Reminder: My PhD is in Thanatology–the study variously of loss, death, grief, bereavement, and resilience.
My specific research interests include, among others, how euphemisms create rage and crush resilience, especially among those particularly susceptible to homicidality (including suicidality and abortion).
As I put it in my thesis on the effect of intergenerational euphemisms on morbidity and resilience, respectively: “Lies ruin. Gentle lies–euphemisms–often ruin worse, because they arise with the plausible deniability of meaning well and sounding kind, which allows gentle lies to creep up and seep in all the more. Lies are destructive. This includes the dangerously gentle lies that we call euphemisms.”
–Dr. Floyd