![]() ![]() ![]() “Unalive” refers to death by suicide or homicide. “These are kids who’ve had to learn English and are now learning TikToklish,” Litman says. Her students don’t use - and perhaps have never even heard - English words like “ suicide.” But they know “unalive.” Litman, 46, teaches English as a second language to students in Jersey City. When Emily Litman was in middle school, kids whose parents grounded them would blithely lament: “I just want to die.” Now she’s a middle school teacher in New Jersey, and when her students’ phones and TikTok access are taken away, their out-loud whining has a 21st-century digital twist: “I feel so unalive.”
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