Timeline for What would you call the husband of a widow?
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| Aug 31, 2015 at 0:12 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | +1 Framed as "her husband, now deceased," the wording deceased sounds not at all abrupt or harsh to me. But one person's delicacy is another's coarseness, I guess. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 22:42 | comment | added | Jim | deceased is, perhaps, better than dead, but it is pretty brusque and clinical. Departed is a euphemism for dead and is so because it alludes to the person "passing on" to a new stage of existence rather than ceasing to exist which may be of comfort to survivors. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 20:45 | history | edited | Centaurus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2015 at 20:38 | history | answered | Centaurus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |