self-death

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self-death

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noun self-deaths · selfdeath

countable, euphemistic, uncountable Suicide. 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
countable, uncountable Apoptosis.

verb self-deaths · self-deathing · self-deathed · selfdeath

euphemistic, rare To commit suicide.

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@misc{self_death_2026,
  title = {self-death},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/self-death},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}