Why am I now seeing the term "unalived" all over the place instead of the much shorter "killed" or "died"?

Semantic saturation achieved. You’re safe.

I think the term is even older than that. I remember first hearing the term “to make unalive” in the Doctor Who story “Paradise Towers”, which was first aired in 1987.

Of course, that had nothing to do with censorship. That term was used mostly to make the Kangs street gangs in the story speak exotically.

Hence, my phrasing of the modern usage which was explicitly derived from the Spiderman cartoon.

…buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo?

Why are you typing that? That’s not even a word.