"Survivor"

[Dis86]

What's with the current media trend for labelling everyone these days as a survivor? Some examples in the last week I've seen are:

• Domestic abuse survivor
• Burns survivor
• Hurricane survivor
• Crash survivor

I've been in several car crashes, is living through such things so remarkable that i too am now a Survivor?
Are we all going to be Brexit survivors?
I stubbed my toe the other day, am I a toe stub survivor?

Cool story eh?

 

[Dis86]

Uh... ok, why is this even a thread a person who survives a crash or domestic abuse, kinda deserves the word survivor....

Really? Cos I mean that time someone reversed in to me at 3mph was a crash. Does this make me an uber ultra mega hero survivor? Or does it just mean I had a crash?

 

[Dis86]

The examples you have given don't seem entirely unreasonable to me. The one that I find particularly odd is "Child abuse survivor".

To me survivor should be applied to someone who makes it through something likely to result in death.
All of those things I've listed only result in death in the most extreme cases. I burn my hands on the oven allllll the time.

 

[Dis86]

Wonder if we count as surviving this storm.