I saw a t-shirt online the other day that said: "Misuse of literally makes me figuratively insane."

For quite a while, I've noted the less-than-accurate usage of the adverb literally. Since high school. and that was a while ago. I mean, if you literally killed yourself writing a paper, then you wouldn't even be alive to say that. It appears the meaning has gradually altered:

Since the early 20th century, literally has been widely used as an intensifier meaning “in effect, virtually,” a sense that contradicts the earlier meaning “actually, without exaggeration”:  The senator was literally buried alive in the Iowa primaries.

The use is often criticized; nevertheless, it appears in all but the most carefully edited writing. Although this use of literally irritates some, it probably neither distorts nor enhances the intended meaning of the sentences in which it occurs. The same might often be said of the use of literally in its earlier sense “actually”:  The garrison was literally wiped out: no one survived. "literally." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 24 Sep. 2014. (emphasis mine)

Please come back later. :)