self-murder
Ending one's life
Self-murder is an old-fashioned or literary term for suicide—the act of killing oneself.
The word emphasizes the violence of the act and historically carried moral or legal weight, since both murder and suicide were crimes: In Elizabethan England, self-murder meant forfeiture of one's estate.
Now largely replaced by suicide in ordinary speech.
Execution by noose
- drowningDeath by water inhalation
- poisoningHarmful substance exposure
- suffocationFatal lack of air
- exsanguinationSevere, fatal blood loss
gunshot · overdose · defenestration · seppuku · hara-kiri · asphyxiation · jumping · ligature
Violation of divine law
- stigmaMark of dishonor
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- forbiddenNot allowed
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
mortal sin · damnation · disgrace · dishonor · sacrilege · unmentionable · ostracism · guilt
State without hope
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- desperationUtter loss of hope
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
grief · desolation · misery · wretchedness · despondency · suffering · torment · darkness
Grace-destroying spiritual offense
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- soulInnermost animating essence
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
hell · judgment · confession · absolution · burial · consecrated · sanctity · life
hanging
Execution by noose
- drowningDeath by water inhalation
- poisoningHarmful substance exposure
- suffocationFatal lack of air
exsanguination · gunshot · overdose · defenestration · seppuku · hara-kiri · asphyxiation · jumping · ligature
sin
Violation of divine law
prohibition · mortal sin · damnation · disgrace · dishonor · sacrilege · unmentionable · ostracism · guilt · condemnation
hopelessness
State without hope
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- desperationUtter loss of hope
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
sorrow · grief · desolation · misery · wretchedness · despondency · suffering · torment · darkness · emptiness
mortal sin
Grace-destroying spiritual offense
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- soulInnermost animating essence
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
purgatory · hell · judgment · confession · absolution · burial · consecrated · sanctity · life · commandment
Hamlet
Danish prince's revenge tragedy
- OpheliaGreek name meaning help
- JulietFemale name, phonetic J
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
soliloquy · catharsis · pathos · fate · dramatic · literary · theatrical · Romeo · Macbeth · Antigone
self-murderhomicide
Causing another's death
murder · manslaughter · assassination · fratricide · patricide
self-murderself-preservation
Instinct to survive danger
survival · self-care · self-protection · will to live · living
self, murder, murderer, selfless, suicide, murderous, selfhood, self-destructive