Drowning, being hit by a vehicle[, and] suffering a fall [are] the most common causes of ‘selficide’.
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Selficide
Synonyms for "selficide" (1 found)
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German
1 entries- Selfizid noun (death by selfie)
Greek
1 entries- σελφοκτονία noun (death by selfie)
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A recent study documented 259 deaths worldwide caused by people taking selfies – dubbed “selficides” by the researchers – between October 2011 and November 2017.
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Selficides were already in the news last weekend, when it was revealed that an Indian couple who fell to their death at Yosemite National Park had alcohol in their system.
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This situation is becoming increasingly common, even coining the new term selficide where people die in pursuit of extreme selfies, and is not something any crisis playbook of the past would anticipate
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