top oneself
verbEtymology From top (“to kill”) (UK).
- But Mr Blunkett, in a remarkably frank admission, said his first thought on hearing about the 57-year-old's death was to celebrate. "You wake up and you receive a phone call - Shipman's topped himself. You have just got to think for a minute: is it too early to open a bottle? And then you discover that everybody's very upset that he's done it."2004 January 16, “Blunkett admits Shipman error”, in BBC News: