self-death

noun, verb — 3 senses

self-death

noun

Etymology From self- + death.

1

Euphemistic 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 their livingness.2020, Said Shahtahmasebi, Hatim A. Omar, The Broader View of Suicide, page 101:
2

Biology, Natural sciences Apoptosis.

self-death

verb

Etymology From self- + death.

1

Euphemistic, Rare To commit suicide.

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