The Death Seekers. A moniker given to the Mercenaries to marginalize what we were. It was a known fact that people tried to generalize what they didn't understand. If someone did something that didn't make sense, few would be able to call themselves ignorant, instead the one who did would be called crazy.
If they diverged from the status quo, they were eccentric. If they tried to do things unheard of, they would be called stupid. It didn't matter what the actions were nor what they represented, it all boiled down to how it was understood.
So how should people understand the term, Death Seekers?
One who sought death. It was easy to die. Just a bullet to the head or a knife to the heart would do the job. Drinking poison or throwing yourself from a high enough place would lead one to the same result. There were infinitely so many ways to leave this world it was comical.