A linguist might call it “obscuring agency” or “failing to attribute agency”, it’s a semantic (meaning-based), not syntactic (how the sentence is put together structurally), complaint.

The offending clause is not in the passive voice.

“Became deceased” is not passive voice. The ability to combine with “become” is one of the tests for whether you are dealing with an adjectival passive rather than a true passive, and this isn’t even an adjectival passive because “decease” is not transitive.

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I find it kind of relaxing in the greys. Haha. But yeah everyone on every blog should follow me, and you, for we are full of wisdom!

I would just like to take the time to remind everyone that Natalie Whatshername didn’t write Torn, and didn’t even tell the band that did she’d recorded it. They only found out when they started getting royalty checks out of the blue:

THIS. Pack it in, everyone, I'm tired of talking about this

I knew at 8, but thought they went in hotdog style and the penis sort of sweated out the sperm

You are so right. The GOP keeps decrying teachers as lazy, overpaid, union thugs. As you point out, the heroes of these situations always turn out to be teachers and staff, who many times pay with their lives.

There are two things to remember about this tragedy:

I...can not with this week as a young black woman I like to think of myself as optimistic but they are wearing me down. It upsets me because she isn't even talking to a black person and yet the n-word comes out of her mouth and all brown people look alike amirite? It flowed out too you can tell she uses it all the…

I can't help but lol at her for calling him both an Atheist and a Muslim in the same breath.

That's true, and admittedly I didn't read the linked article, but I thought he might have followed him there on his own. It's just a theory! I watch far too many Investigation Discovery shows.

Sorry, but the kebabs drunks who have been to Europe and consumed drunk are generally these:

I think you may be projecting a bit...

"Greeted at the hotel by a topless model and a fan dressed as Donald Duck" - announcer on ESPN3

OK, if that's your stance then I have a question for you about the scenario and issues you raised above. Would you be saying right now if I told you this article was about a teacher taking a student to a hospital and footing the bill because she suspected the student was the victim of abuse? You say "work with the…

I was an upper middle class suburban kid in the mid 80's so maybe I'm filtering thru my own biased lens, but this closing remark seems to add some snark to what is actually an otherwise pretty cool story.

especially when her friend in the picture is clearly wearing a sign that says, "Die, Tumor, Die"?