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- noun The
killing of oneself;suicide . - verb Present participle of
self-kill .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Health The Politics of Suicide Rates Elected coroners identify fewer suicides in their counties than their appointed counterparts, a study finds, and the researchers attribute the results to stigma and political pressure: Aside from general uneasiness over self-killing, relatives can lose insurance money if an ambiguous death is ruled a suicide.
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In other words, ˜suicide™ should not be equatable with wrongful self-killing in the way that
Suicide Cholbi, Michael 2008
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If some or all of this is true, then self-killing is statistically normal.
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I do not know whether self-killing is on the increase or not.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest Robert Green Ingersoll 1866
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˜murder™ is equated with wrongful killing of another, lest we render ourselves unable to refer even to the possibility of a morally justified self-killing.
Suicide Cholbi, Michael 2008
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If that doesn’t help, self-killing is the last resort.
Chicken Pox (Pt. 1) Jerine 2006
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If that doesn’t help, self-killing is the last resort.
Archive 2006-12-01 Jerine 2006
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( 'self-killing') and autophagy ( 'self-eating') is intricate and complex in the sense that, under certain situations, autophagy constitutes a stress adaptation that avoids cell death
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010
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( 'self-killing') and autophagy ( 'self-eating') is intricate and complex in the sense that, under certain situations, autophagy constitutes a stress adaptation that avoids cell death
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010
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Deprived of blood, it makes self-killing bacteriophages or else sporulates. "
I Am Legend Matheson, Richard, 1926- 1954
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