committed suicide
Took their life
Committed suicide is the past tense of commit suicide, meaning to intentionally end one's own life.
The phrase treats suicide as an act one carries out, like committing a crime—a framing some now find stigmatizing.
Alternatives like "died by suicide" or "took their own life" are increasingly preferred in clinical and journalistic contexts: He committed suicide at age forty-two.
- self-harmDeliberately damaging one's body
- hangingExecution by noose
- despairTotal absence of hope
- mortalityState of eventual death
- left behindAbandoned or forgotten
depression · hopelessness · deep end · cry for help · crisis hotline · mental health · death · isolation · fatal · final act · Sylvia Plath · trauma · loneliness · overdose · jumped off · intentional · grief · therapy
committed suicidenatural death
Death from internal causes
accidental death · homicide · manslaughter · fatal accident · passed away
committed suicidesurvived
Remained alive through hardship
lived · recovered · pulled through · overcame
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