suicides
Intentional fatal self-harm
Suicides is the plural of suicide—acts of intentionally ending one's own life, or the people who commit such acts.
The word appears in statistics and policy discussions: Teen suicides have risen sharply.
In football, a suicide is a dangerous kickoff return play.
Suicide drills are exhausting sprints in athletic training.
Prolonged low state
- hopelessnessState without hope
- despairTotal absence of hope
- ideationForming mental concepts
- intentPlanned purpose
ambivalence · impulsivity · isolation · worthlessness · burden · trapped · unbearable · pain
State following loss
- survivorsThose still alive after
- mourningPeriod following loss
- lossBeing without something
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
anguish · guilt · trauma · healing · memorial · aftermath · coping · blame
Purposeful involvement to change course
- hotlineDirect emergency phone connection
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
- traumaLasting psychological wound
survivors · prevention · 911 · hospitalization · assessment · triage · responders · acute
Harmful excess intake
- hangingExecution by noose
- firearmsWeapons using explosive propulsion
- jumpingPropelling oneself airborne
- poisoningHarmful substance exposure
drowning · cutting · asphyxiation · means · lethality · access · restriction · bridge
depression
Prolonged low state
- hopelessnessState without hope
- despairTotal absence of hope
- ideationForming mental concepts
intent · ambivalence · impulsivity · isolation · worthlessness · burden · trapped · unbearable · pain · constriction
bereavement
State following loss
sorrow · anguish · guilt · trauma · healing · memorial · aftermath · coping · blame · shock
intervention
Purposeful involvement to change course
- hotlineDirect emergency phone connection
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
trauma · survivors · prevention · 911 · hospitalization · assessment · triage · responders · acute · imminent
overdose
Harmful excess intake
- hangingExecution by noose
- firearmsWeapons using explosive propulsion
- jumpingPropelling oneself airborne
poisoning · drowning · cutting · asphyxiation · means · lethality · access · restriction · bridge · railway
awareness
State of perceiving reality
- hotlinesDedicated emergency phone numbers
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
support · education · outreach · screening · resilience · hope · lifelines · 988 · barriers · signage
shame
Painful awareness of failure
judgment · sin · disgrace · cultural · moral · criminalization · blame · cowardice · selfishness · weakness
- basketball trainingdrills, practice, scrimmage, shooting, dribbling
- HIIT ExercisesHIIT, Tabata, interval training, burpees, box jumps
- trainingtraining, basic training, training session, employee training, apprenticeships
- drillsdrill, drills, drilling, fire drill, earthquake drill
suicideshomicides
Killings of humans
murders · accidents · accidental deaths · killings · executions
suicidessurvivals
Things that persisted
rescues · recoveries · self-preservation · births · revivals
- commit suicideIntentionally end one's life
- suicidal thoughtsContemplation of ending oneself
- suicide watchObservation preventing self-harm
- suicide bombSelf-destroying explosive device
- suicide missionAssignment with fatal certainty
- career suicideAct ending one's profession
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