Hey, but it's in the Mass!:
"sub Pontio Pilato passus et sepultus est."
(sort of).
David Latane
--- Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
> >no, this is one choice I prefer not to make!
> >
> >"gone" is ok, I suppose
> >
> >it's "passed away" that I find offensive
> >
> >
> >L
> >
> >
> Not in my vocabulary either. I'd prefer "croaked,"
> "bought the farm,"
> or "lay down for his dirt nap." The morning my
> mother-in-law died in
> 1994, my wife's sister made a call and said their
> mother had passed
> away. My wife shouted. "Goddammit, Harriet, she
> DIED!"
>
> Ken
>
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> If you want patience, go to medical
> school.
>
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