as in suicides
the act of deliberately killing oneself
members of the cult decided to hasten the end of their time in this world—and the start of their life in the next—with an orgy of self-slaughter
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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,
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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-slaughters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-slaughters. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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