The difference between victims and survivors

[prometheorist]

In the Coast Guard, we were taught to be very careful about the terminology we used over unsecured radio channels. We were never to report "bodies" or "deceased" or use any words similar to those. Instead, we were to use the word "victim" for someone we found dead, and "survivor" for someone we found alive

Comments

[skypony]

hmm...i feel like i could be the victim....i mean I'm not...but i think I present myself that way sometimes...

[mooneysmith]

So true.