self-death
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editself-death (countable and uncountable, plural self-deaths)
- (euphemistic) Suicide.
- 2020, Said Shahtahmasebi, Hatim A. Omar, The Broader View of Suicide, page 101:
- Psychiatry may have a name for this form of cessation, but it isn't hard to see something of that notion in the self-deaths of creative artists who have either sought to push the very edges of corporeal existence or who have died because they couldn't find a way of truly validating their talents and their livingness.
- (biology) Apoptosis.
Verb
editself-death (third-person singular simple present self-deaths, present participle self-deathing, simple past and past participle self-deathed)
- (rare, euphemistic) To commit suicide.