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self-murder
noun
Suicide
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In German, he noted, the word for suicide literally means self-murder, and like a homicide, a suicide often stirs anger.
The self-murder of those who die for a cause is always brought about by a supreme decision to act now for future times.
"I've tried to commit self-murder a couple of times but the day somebody else tried to kill me, I woke up.
Calvinism, which placed the utmost emphasis on utter surrender to God's will, deemed self-murder a particularly horrifying defiance of divine dispensation, a complete forfeit of grace.
She recounts episodes from the canon of voluntary self-murder, including the deaths of Socrates, Cato, Samson, Sylvia Plath, and even Jesus — whose end, according to some scholars, was tantamount to suicide.
The Richmond paper further vindicated Cocke by denying he bore blame for the self-murder, explaining that he had shot himself while "under the impulsion of a mental aberration that extinguished all responsibility".
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Besides, the burning cows are our fatted calves and our golden calf, they are objects of wanton sacrifice and spurious worship, they are nature robbed of sentience and commodified, and as such they are synonymous with all our self-murdering, all our Promethean hubris, and all our Neronic fiddling about.
That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it.
In the country of Voltaire, those men with a terrifying absence of self-doubt murdered an editor and his cartoonists in cold blood.
Mark Brandon Read, a notorious Australian criminal and self-described "murdering maggot" who spun tales from his violent history into a successful comedy routine and 10 top-selling books, including one illustrated for children, died on Wednesday in Melbourne.
The Webisodes, which will conclude on Jan . 12 just before the television series returns, are a self-contained murder mystery set aboard a small spacecraft that has been separated from the fleet.
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