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"No longer alive" = "dead"?
BBC News bulletins were yesterday reporting the Iraq hostages as "no longer alive". Surely that means "dead" doesn't it?
... or am I missing something here?
7 Answers
- IchiLv 51 decade agoFavourite answer
What's your point? It's just a slightly softer way of saying it. They could have said "killed all over their bodys until death came as a releif to their tortured souls" but they didn't...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I suppose it is supposed to imply that they have been alive for a long period of time after they were abducted (in 2007) and have only recently been killed. Therefore the period of hope is over. There is more gravitas in "no longer alive".
- Charlie FarleyLv 41 decade ago
I think it gives a very faint glimmer of hope. Until the bodies are found, they cannot say absolutely that they are dead...else it could lead to the old Mark Twain comment of 'Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated".
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes it does but its a little less direct, rather like saying 'passed away'
Perhaps the media are learning to be a bit nicer in how they deliver bad news.
- 5 years ago
Lol, try going to a record studio and making a remake like weird Al, lol. That was a good remake though.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
"Probably murdered" is an option!
