commit suicide
Take one's life
To commit suicide is to intentionally end one's own life.
The phrase uses commit in its older sense of performing a grave act—like committing a crime or sin—which some find stigmatizing.
Alternatives like "die by suicide" or "take one's own life" are increasingly preferred in clinical and journalistic contexts: She died by suicide after a long struggle with depression.
- hangingExecution by noose
- kill oneselfCause one's own death
- take one's lifeKill oneself deliberately
- end one's lifeDeliberately cause own demise
- noteShort written record
drowning · overdose · lethal dose · self-harm · jump · rope · crisis hotline · kill · poisoning · self-kill · depression · suffocation · starvation · end it all · fall · suicidal ideation · asphyxiation · bridge
orientation toward existence
commit suicidewill to live
Drive to keep existing
self-preservation · survive · survival instinct · recovery · recover