Reframing the language of death will better enable people to deal with the emotional loss of a loved one, writes author.
!["Just this past summer in the Daily Mail, the obituary for best-selling Scottish author Iain Banks read that he had "lost his battle" with gall bladder cancer." [AP]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/20131012124944809734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Randi Belisomo is a reporter with WGN-TV in Chicago and a co-founder of lifemattersmedia.org. She is a board member of the Chicago End of Life Care Coalition, a member of the Illinois Task Force for the Physicians Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) and a hospice volunteer.
Reframing the language of death will better enable people to deal with the emotional loss of a loved one, writes author.
!["Just this past summer in the Daily Mail, the obituary for best-selling Scottish author Iain Banks read that he had "lost his battle" with gall bladder cancer." [AP]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/20131012124944809734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)