Suicide

Introduction

Look up suicide or suicided in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Suicide is the act of intentionally ending one's own life (and can be a noun for a person who has died by suicide).

Suicide may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media
  • Suicide (wrestling), a professional wrestling persona, used by multiple professional wrestlers
  • Suicide (game), a type of street game that involves the bouncing of a ball against a wall
  • Suicide (Durkheim book), an 1897 case study on suicide by French sociologist Émile Durkheim
  • Suicide (novel), a 2008 short novel by Edouard Levé
  • Suicide (Suvorov book), a 2001 book by Viktor Suvorov
  • Suicides (short story), a short story by Guy de Maupassant

Music

  • Suicide (band), an American electronic/punk band, intermittently active from 1970–2016
    • Suicide (1977 album), the first album by Suicide
    • Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev, the second album by Suicide
  • Suicide, a 1999 album by American rock band Sweet Water
  • Suicide, a 2010 mixtape by American rapper Lil Scrappy
  • "Suicide", a song by The Devin Townsend Band from the 2003 album Accelerated Evolution
  • "Suicide", a song by Hirax from the 1985 album Raging Violence
  • "Suicide", a song by R. Kelly from the 1998 album R.
  • "Suicide", a song by T-Pain from the 2007 album Epiphany
  • "Suicide", a song by Thin Lizzy from the 1975 album Fighting
  • "Suicide", a song by Kai Tracid from the 2002 album Trance & Acid
Other uses
  • Animal suicide, suicide in animals concerns self-destructive behavior of various species in the animal kingdom
  • Aokigahara (also called the Suicide Forest), in Japan
  • Euthanasia, the practice of intentionally ending life to relieve pain and suffering
  • History of suicide
  • Suicide (b-boy move), a breakdancer's sudden drop to their back
  • Suicide cable, a double-ended male connector for utility-supplied electrical power
  • Suicide Hill (Montana), a mountain in the U.S. state of Montana
  • Suicide, a trick with the diabolo juggling prop, in which the player lets go with one hand and spins the diabolo freely
  • A slang term for a mixture of every flavor available at a soda fountain
See also
  • Suicide terminology
  • The Suicide (disambiguation)

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