Euphemism In UNC-Charlotte Community

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Tram Dang
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I know the recently death of Dr. Skinner was a total shock to our UNC-Charlotte community. All my four years here, I have never experienced anything like this before and for a while, I was in disbelieved that something like this could ever happened to her. However, because of this incident, it made me more grateful that I had taken the Death and Dying class last spring. It taught me not to use euphemism when I talk about this with my family and friends. Using euphemism could make it seem that I fear the topic of death and that I have not accepted what is going on. Beside, I have younger siblings in the house and even though I am not discussing this with them, I do not want them to over

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