"Killed by Euphemisms"

This editorial at NRO that reminds us, a la Geore Orwell, that the debasement of language results in the debasement of thought.

Here's George Orwell, from "Politics and the English Language," on the pernicious effects of imprecise and euphemistic language:

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hot-bed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin where it belongs."

I'm hoping, now that we've killed her, that we can send the "let Terri die" phrase into the same dustbin.