Definitions of suicide
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the act of killing yourselfsynonyms: self-annihilation, self-destructiontypes:assisted suicidesuicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possiblefelo-de-sean act of deliberate self destructionhara-kiri, harakiri, harikari, seppukuritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese societysutteethe act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husbandphysician-assisted suicideassisted suicide where the assistant is a physiciantype of:
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a person who kills himself intentionallysynonyms: felo-de-se
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