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Suicide is the act of ending one's own life, often linked to unbearable pain that treatment could have eased.
means The act of intentionally ending one's own life.
from From Latin sui ('of oneself') plus -cide, a combining form from caedere ('to kill' or 'to cut down') — the same root that gives homicide and pesticide. The word was assembled in the 1600s as a Latin-style coinage, not inherited straight from ancient Rome; Latin itself had no single tidy word for the act. It's a clinical, almost legalistic construction — 'self-killing' — built the way a doctor or lawyer names a thing precisely because ordinary language hadn't.
- survival rate
- over 90 percent of attempt survivors do not die by suicide later
- the urge
- suicidal crises often pass within minutes to hours, not forever
- means matter
- restricting access to lethal methods measurably saves lives
- help exists
- 988 connects callers to crisis support across the US