self-killer
nounEtymology From self- + killer or self-kill + -er.
1
One who kills oneself; a suicide.
- The idea of excusing the self-killer by attributing to him the fictitious malady called "insanity" was invented as a tactic for the merciful treatment of his survivors.2002, Thomas Szasz, Fatal Freedom, page 43:
- Related terms
- self-murderer, self-slayer, suicidee, suicider