Meaning

(informal) Accidental death that occurs while trying to take a selfie in a dangerous environment..

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1. (informal) Accidental death that occurs while trying to take a selfie in a dangerous environment.
2. The metaphorical killing of the self.

Example Sentences

Drowning, being hit by a vehicle[, and] suffering a fall [are] the most common causes of ‘selficide’.

A recent study documented 259 deaths worldwide caused by people taking selfies – dubbed “selficides” by the researchers – between October 2011 and November 2017.

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.

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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According to an article published in Economic times named 'Global addiction: Selfie's facts and moments from around the world.' (economictimes) States that millennia‟s age 18-34, 82% of them are selfie takers (2018 fact), 259 selficide ie deaths caused while taking Selfie‟s (Bureau, 2019) reported by All India institute of medical sciences in the year 2011-2017, half of which were reported from India followed by Russia, United States and Pakistan.

Even Dostoevsky's supposedly Christlike character Prince Myshkin ends in a suicide, or more literally, "selficide," […]

This "rigor mortis" is selficide. The person literally "lives out" his life, with little difference in his experience when he is five, sixteen, forty, or seventy years old. Self never emerges.

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