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it originated because people found it too difficult to say "is dead". It is an English expression.

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Hardly. The original phrase was 'passed on' i.e. they have passed through this vale of tears and into Heaven. This became 'passed away'. In turn this has given way to the recent, and deeply irritating, Americanism 'passed'. Which to me always sounds like someone's just successfully completed an exam.

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