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Definition of Suicide
Suicide

The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

Ruin of one's own interests.

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Suicide Quotations

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Bill Maher

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Suicide Translations

suicide in French is suicide
suicide in German is Selbstmord, Sebstmord, Freitod
suicide in Italian is suicidio
suicide in Spanish is suicidio


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