Definition of Suicide

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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

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

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

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody Allen

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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