This class is killing me!

So, they say deaths come in threes.
I'm beginning to think that's true.  After Thanksgiving, I lost my aunt to ovarian cancer.  Two weeks later, one of my high school friends lost her dad to melanoma.  A little over three later, my 8th grade math teacher passes away.

I read the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, a wonderful writer who lives in Indianapolis.  I actually lost a chance to meet him when I was a senior in high school but I recently decided to pick up TFIOS again after letting it collect dust on my book shelf.

Through the experiences that have been had in the past couple of months combined with two good nights of sobbing over a fictional story, I decided that death is a very sad thing.  We don't know what death feels like; is it painful, is it peaceful?  Does the breath just leave you and you fall into oblivion?  Does it look easy on the outside, and your brain screams on the inside?

I'm not asking because I have a suicidal wish but because people these days say a multitude of things that have nothing to do with death but involve some form of it.  When I neglect to tell my friend something he wants to know, his response is "you're killing me."  When you are preparing for a final in that difficult inorganic chemistry class, "this class will be the death of me, I know it."

I know most people through around the words death, dying and being killed like its simple, colloquial even and means nothing in everyday speech.  But, I'm not killing my friend by not telling him things.  And inorganic chemistry, while a pain, isn't going to lead you to your death bed before you finish the final and actually pass the class.

Why does this matter, Ame?  For about three or so weeks, I have been trying to eliminate those words from my vocabulary unless they are in the proper context.  Why am I doing this?  Because death is a sad event.  It comes to us eventually whether by old age, sickness or more violent means.  But unless someone is murdering you, they aren't killing you and if inorganic chemistry is not a deadly virus, it is also not going to kill you.

These are just my thoughts, trying to change the way people say things.