ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Self-death

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Self-death is a noun meaning (euphemistic) Suicide.

Meaning

(euphemistic) Suicide.

More Meanings

  1. (biology) Apoptosis.
  2. (rare, euphemistic) To commit suicide.

Example Sentences

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.

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