self-death

English

Alternative forms

• selfdeath

Etymology

From self +‎ death.

Noun

self-death (countable and uncountable, plural self-deaths)

1. (euphemistic) Suicide.
   • 2020, Said Shahtahmasebi, Hatim A. Omar, The Broader View of Suicide, page 101:

     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.

2. (biology) Apoptosis.

Verb

self-death (third-person singular simple present self-deaths, present participle self-deathing, simple past and past participle self-deathed)

1. (rare, euphemistic) To commit suicide.

Derived terms

• self-deathing