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Misadventure is my favorite euphemism.

• DanBC 5y ago
  Depending where you are, misadventure isn't really a euphemism. In England: Suicide means the deceased did something to end their life, and had the intention of ending their life when they did it. Misadventure means the deceased did a risky thing and died, but did not have the intention of dying when they did it. Accident means the deceased was doing a normal activity and died. Definitions of the manner of death can be nice and clear on paper, but are much harder to apply to the situations of a person's death, so there's lots of overlap between suicide and misadventure. It's often difficult to show intent, and so those deaths sometimes get called misadventure, or they have a narrative conclusion.