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Killing of self. Suicide, intentionally causing one's own death. Altruistic suicide, suicide for the benefit of others. Autocide, suicide by automobile collision. Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician. Murder-suicide, a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders. Self-immolation, suicide by fire, often as a ...
Mayerling incident. The Mayerling incident is the series of events surrounding the apparent murder–suicide pact of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and his lover, baroness Mary Vetsera. They were found dead on 30 January 1889 in an imperial hunting lodge in Mayerling. Rudolf, who was married to Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, was the only son ...
Murder–suicide of the David family. The David family murder–suicide refers to a familicide which took place in Salt Lake City, United States, on the morning of August 3, 1978, in which Rachal David (1939–1978) pushed several of her children off an International Dunes Hotel 11th floor balcony and convinced at least three of her surviving ...
F. Female murder–suicides (1 C, 4 P) Murder–suicide in fiction (2 C, 14 P) Filmed murder–suicides (1 C, 24 P)
Harry Horse (2007), English author, illustrator, cartoonist and musician, stabbed himself 47 times in a murder-suicide; Silvio Horta (2020), American screenwriter and television producer, gunshot; Robert E. Howard (1936), American author known for his character Conan the Barbarian, gunshot to the head
The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David (1787) Forced suicide was a common means of execution in ancient Greece and Rome. As a mark of respect it was generally reserved for aristocrats sentenced to death; the victims would either drink hemlock or fall on their swords. Economic motivations prompted some suicides in ancient Rome.
Steven Pladl triple murder and suicide. On April 12, 2018, Steven Walter Pladl, a 43-year-old man from Knightdale, North Carolina, murdered his biological daughter, 20-year-old Katie Rose Fusco Pladl, with whom he had been engaged in an incestuous relationship, and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Charles Fusco, in New Milford ...
