Idiomatic expressions are one of the reasons that language translation can become an art form. When we are, as the saying goes, "separated by a common language," it illustrates this all the more.

"PC" has nothing to do with this, but it is an easy charge to make if you disagree. The dismissal of a life with a throw-away idiom (as discussed at length) is bad taste, but aparently also in the eye of the beholder.

Morning Edition's piece about her death from this morning.

SRS