One word I feel should be completely removed from the fediverse is 'asylum' when used to describe an abandoned hospital by urban explorers.
These places - generally old psychiatric hospitals - may have been a place of safety (that is 'asylum') for many patients, but they were in many cases, centres of abuse and cruelty.
The word asylum seems to be deliberately used by Urban Explorers to create a kind of mystique or atmosphere around any healthcare building, possibly one with a unfortunate history.
As the parent of someone who has spent a lot of time in psychiatric hospitals, and met many of the staff and other patients, the word 'asylum' makes me gag - it's completely inappropriate for psychiatric hospitals - disused or otherwise - in the 21st century.
They are hospitals for the sick.
