In reply to Paul K.

Or, we could teach people, as this article is doing, what the biblical language (of which “depart in peace” is a part) means, in the same way we teach people what hope, righteousness, and sleep is in the scriptures.
We don’t abandon the language of scripture for the sake of culture, rather, we bring culture into the language of scripture so that they, too, can join with us in the joy of those words.