suicide pact
Coordinated fatal agreement
A suicide pact is an agreement between two or more people to kill themselves together, typically at the same time and place.
The term often appears in news coverage of couples or small groups who die by coordinated suicide: Police believe the deaths were part of a suicide pact.
Figuratively, it describes any mutually destructive agreement: Voting for that bill would be a political suicide pact.
- MasadaAncient Judean mountain fortress
- noteShort written record
- ropeThick twisted fibers
- codependencyExcessive emotional reliance on another
- JonestownInfamous cult settlement
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- agreementshandshake, contract, nod, accords, verbal consent
- tragic romanceRomeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Wuthering Heights, doomed lovers, star-crossed
- cultsbrainwashing, mind control, Scientology, Jonestown, Jim Jones
- right to dieeuthanasia, right to die, physician-assisted death, death with dignity, voluntary euthanasia
- family tragedyfamilicide, filicide, infanticide, matricide, patricide