Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-64.113.177.152-20150121173112/@comment-25555436-20150315172802

There's something called "Never say die". Besides, "one day, she left for a mission and...never came back" sounds more dramatic than "one day, she left for a mission and was killed".

There are also a good number of people that try to avoid saying "die" when speaking of a dead relative or similar.