The OP is not upset about the name alone, but against the twinge of realization ...

logical42 · on Jan 22, 2016

I'm not exactly sure it's possible to describe killing processes much differently.. I mean the Linux command to kill a process is 'kill'..

DrScump · on Jan 22, 2016

the kill command just sends the signal of the user's choice, not necessarily SIGTERM (the default) or SIGKILL or whatever.

This lets you change behavior in a running process from the shell by triggering a desired handled signal.

leriksen · on Jan 22, 2016

Hopefully they never come across parents reaping children....