• Vol. 37 No. 9, 729–732
  • 15 September 2008

Suicide

The word suicide is derived from the Latin word suicidium, itself derived from sui (of oneself) and cidium (a killing; caedere = to kill. The word appears to have been first used around 1651, although the self-killing act itself is recorded in antiquity.

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