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cybersuicide en · NOUN

Etymology

From cyber- + suicide.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) 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:

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Relateds

cybercide