Category:Suicide

Su"i*cide, n. Etym: [l. sui of one's self (akin to suus one's own) + Caedere to slay, to kill. Cf. So, adv., Homicide.]

1. The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; Self-murder; specifically (law), the felonious killing of one's self; The deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a Person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

3. Ruin of one's own interests. "intestine war, which may be justly Called political suicide." V. Knox.