Definition of "self-slaughter" []

• The slaughter or slaying of one's self, suicide. (noun)

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• "One in every 100 deaths is the result of what Hamlet called self-slaughter, and the vast majority who die that way are male."
• "Yet a group of emo teenagers merely rolled their eyes (whereas at least one journalist considered an emo-style act of self-slaughter), but respectfully waited for their beloved Stewart and Colbert to return, which they did, with merciful speed."
• "From the Kinzer piece: This shocking act of self-slaughter was the latest violent tragedy in the long history of a family drenched in blood—first that of the Iranians it tortured and killed, then its own."