self-slaughter

• “One in every 100 deaths is the result of what Hamlet called self-slaughter, and the vast majority who die that way are male.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “Yet a group of emo teenagers merely rolled their eyes (whereas at least one journalist considered an emo-style act of self-slaughter), but respectfully waited for their beloved Stewart and Colbert to return, which they did, with merciful speed.”

  The Guardian: Jon Stewart rally: moderation breaks out in Washington crowd

• “From the Kinzer piece: This shocking act of self-slaughter was the latest violent tragedy in the long history of a family drenched in blood—first that of the Iranians it tortured and killed, then its own.”

  The Washington Post: Story pick: The Shah's son kills himself

• “Suicide, which Shakespeare called “self-slaughter” and which is known in Christian teaching as “the sin against the Holy Ghost,” occupies a very different place in the imagination of the West than it does in Japan, where self-disembowelment with a specialized blade has long been considered a proper response to shame or dishonor.”

  Let’s Die Together

• “It is the atmospheric horror of a fish-belly white sky that has driven me over and over to the brink of self-slaughter.”

  Texas Weather | clusterflock

• “I was, though, not convinced either that Mr. Law's prince was genuinely suicidal, or that he was bothered by the religious prohibition of self-slaughter.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Artist Princes' Painted Germany's Rise and Fall

• “It's true that Hamlet tells himself that he would commit suicide if the Almighty had not fixed His canon against self-slaughter, and that he would kill Claudius if the king were not at his prayers, but aren't these just more of his excuses for delay?”

  'Without God': An Exchange

• “In the ghettos, brothers and sisters in self-slaughter.”

  NPR: Rapper Mr. Lif, Back with 'Mo Mega'

• “Then she thought of that strange black stone with its crawling lines and spots of red and the despair that had filled her, as deep and black, with a stabbing red terror of self-slaughter.”

  Ill Met By Moonlight

• “The wet winter days seemed at times unending, and quite often they led to self-slaughter.”

  Cider With Rosie

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