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cybersuicide

cybersuicide noun: suicide assisted by computer technology, such as suicide committed by several people simultaneously after meeting on the Internet.

Noun

cybersuicide (countable and uncountable, plural cybersuicides)

  1. 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 […]2008, Megan-Jane Johnstone, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective
    • 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.2009, John Haffner, Tomas Casas i Klett, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Japan's Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship
  2. 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.2004, Patricia R Schroeder, Robert Johnson, mythmaking, and contemporary American culture

Forms of cybersuicide

pluralcybersuicides

Origin of cybersuicide

From cyber- + suicide.

Questions about cybersuicide

What does cybersuicide mean?
Cybersuicide means suicide assisted by computer technology, such as suicide committed by several people simultaneously after meeting on the Internet.
What part of speech is cybersuicide?
Cybersuicide is a noun.
What is the plural of cybersuicide?
The plural of cybersuicide is cybersuicides.

Words near cybersuicide in the dictionary

  1. cyberstyle
  2. cybersubculture
  3. cybersubcultures
  4. cybersucker
  5. cybersuckers
  6. cybersuicide
  7. cybersuicides
  8. cybersuit
  9. cybersuits
  10. cybersurf
  11. cybersurfed

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