IstominFan wrote:
If you don't see anything wrong or inherently creepy about the term "co-morbid" when written in a medical journal or DSM study. The connection with death escapes you or doesn't make you feel sick. You believe the term "co-existing condition" is too cumbersome and too much work to write.
To be fair, the etymology of the word "morbid" is from the Latin "morbus," meaning disease, not from "mortem," meaning death. Now, maybe one could argue with the association with the word disease in this context, but at least it is not as bad as death.