Euphemisms—tactful words and phrases used in place of less pleasant ones—have been employed as rhetorical and literary devices for centuries. (The word is derived from the Greek for “good-speaking.”) ...

Previous posts explored the role of compassion in perinatal bereavement care and why it's better than empathy. This post looks at how to think compassionately about the words we use when talking to ...

The previous post explored how euphemisms, platitudes, and medical terms marginalize parents’ experiences around the deaths of their babies, and why parents feel so hurt. But these words do more than ...

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In Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms, author Ralph Keyes explores the power of words and our power over them. Keyes tells host Robert Siegel he's always been interested in the intersection ...