cybersuicide
nounEtymology
From cyber- + suicide.
Definitions
Suicide assisted by computer technology, such as suicide committed by several people…
Suicide assisted by computer technology, such as suicide committed by several people simultaneously after meeting on the Internet.
- Reports such as these have underscored public health concerns about a cybersuicide epidemic […]
- There are also very dark chapters that have opened with the disturbing phenomenon of "cybersuicide," in which strangers meet online, form group suicide pacts, and then meet in person to execute their macabre plan together.
The deliberate destruction of one's own online persona.
- Self-constructed personae online (unlike the offline variety) can be abandoned or re-created at will; cybersuicide may simply provide the clearest path to a fresh start.
The neighborhood
- neighborcybercide
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cybersuicide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA