Columns When Words Lose Their Meaning By Claire T. Grumbacher By Walter Johnson and Richard F. Thomas, Contributing Opinion Writers ...

Indeed, in another link between first and last words, Mr Erard argues that dying people lose their verbal faculties in a way resembling the child’s language learning but in reverse.

Words change meaning over time. When someone uses the word “suicide” most of us think of those who take their life for reasons such as depression or mental illness.