: an agreement between two or more people to kill themselves at the same time
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Ronit Yudkevitch stars as Yehudit, a sheltered farmer’s wife who backs out of a suicide pact that leaves her husband dead.—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 June 2026 Over the years, Beverley has claimed that Vicious and Spungen had a suicide pact, fueling rumors that the bass player had intended to kill himself.—Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026 The congressional power to declare war, like the rest of the Constitution, is not, to paraphrase Justice Robert Jackson, a suicide pact.—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2026 Cartman tried to involve Butters in a suicide pact.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2025 In 1987, four teenagers in Bergenfield, New Jersey, entered a car in a garage after making a suicide pact, starting the engine and dying minutes later of carbon monoxide poisoning.—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 The bot suggested that Pierre sacrifice himself to save humanity, even proposing a suicide pact.—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025 Police said that two handwritten notes found at the scene suggest that the women died in an apparent suicide pact, according to the outlets.—Abigail Adams, People.com, 18 July 2025