User blog comment:JackdaMan171/The Death Category is Useless/@comment-24101790-20140113212330

I would agree that the death category is over-used. I think that the death category should be used when discussing the concept of death or the nature of the afterlife. It shouldn't be used to categorize stories in which a person dies because that is practically every creepypasta.

The problem is that changing it is going to require an insane amount of work so why bother with it especially since it's almost second nature for editors to tag a story with death as a way for earning badges.