Why is it referred to as a "casualty"?

Question

I know if *I* am killed, it would be far from 'casual'!

Answer 1

I agree! Why are they not referred to as "formalities"?

Answer 2

I don't know I never thought about that. Why would they have the word casual in casualty. But you know just another Why question like why is the sky blue.

Answer 3

Don't worry about too much. Casualty is just a word Walter Cronkite made up when he was covering WWII because he thought reporting that "3,000 soldiers got the a s s shot off at Normandy today" was inappropriate.

Answer 4

In media, casualties are simply people who have been hurt or killed (not so simple) in either wars or disasters. In the military sense, casualties are all people who have been killed in action or killed in disease, disabled by serious physical or mental wounds that prevent fighting, capture by enemy, going AWOL, or MIA. Wounds that do not prevent fighting are not considered casualites. The number of casualties is known as the casualty count. [Middle English casuelte, from Old French, from Medieval Latin csulits, chance, accident, from Latin csulis, fortuitous.]

Answer 5

well, that's because you're a clown. If a shop was blown up with you inside and 5 other people. On the news they would say "5 casualties and a clown have been blown dead today in a shop...."
Consider yourself lucky, you'll be remembered!

Answer 6

Now you know CLOWNS can't be killed, they just pop back up. Don't you watch cartoons????remember clown collage.

Answer 7

maybe a casual death would be deaths of great numbers....thus making it casual

Answer 8

if you are killed it would be tragic. that's not casual.

Answer 9

total different meaning

Answer 10

It's for the injured.