Self-death
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Suicide. countable, euphemistic, uncountable
"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 Apoptosis. countable, uncountable
- 1 To commit suicide. euphemistic, rare
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From self- + death.
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