as in suicides
the act of deliberately killing oneself
how to deter terrorists who are willing to commit self-murder as well as the mass murder of innocent people
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suicides
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Suicide Prevention Efforts Work Interventions that are designed to reduce suicides are generally effective.—
Eric Wood,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025 -
Regulators are questioning whether OpenAI has strayed from its original public-benefit mission in favor of commercial growth—recent suicides linked to ChatGPT have also complicated the issue.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Self-murders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-murders. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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