On the subject of odd words, I've recently noticed a lot of use of the word survivor, when they actually mean victim. In my opinion, surviving something implies that others didn't survive.
Althought the survivor sounds very bad , certain it is clarifier , we always know that he or she is lived. On change , when the journalists use the word "victim" we never can know the true victim's states.
The victim may be dead, injured, raped, lived,dismembered, even the victim might be on various states on both same time. Such as the Schrödinger's paradox.