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"killing" is very UNIX terminology, and not really what this is about. Let's be more correct and say "send a UNIX signal" for the operation. Otherwise things are really weird if users call "journalctl --rotate" from the command line, which internally asks systemd to send SIGUSR2 to to journald: when german locale is selected this asks the user — roughly transliterated — whether they want to "eliminate" journald, which is definitely not the intended meaning.
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