Quote Originally Posted by Theresej View Post
As I said . .to a modern, western mindset divorced from commonplace first hand experience of death that used to predominate before the advent of modern medicine and hospitals.

It's a matter of perspective. What is morbid, etc to you, is not to others.


Morbid means morbid. It's not subjective.

mor·bid   
[mawr-bid] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
2.
affected by, caused by, causing, or characteristic of disease.
3.
pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin morbidus sickly, equivalent to morb ( us ) sickness + -idus -id4

—Related forms
mor·bid·ly, adverb
mor·bid·ness, noun
pre·mor·bid, adjective
pre·mor·bid·ly, adverb
pre·mor·bid·ness, noun
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—Synonyms
2. unwholesome, diseased, unhealthy, sick, sickly; tainted, corrupted, vitiated.

—Antonyms
1. cheerful. 2. healthy.



Words mean things.

Just b/c you don't LIKE what they mean doesn't mean you possess the ability to redefine them.