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Murder-suicide


 

A murder-suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or while killing themself.

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The combination of murder and suicide can take various forms, including:

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  • suicide to facilitate murder, as in suicide bombing
  • suicide after murder to escape punishment, e.g. Dunblane Massacre, Columbine High School massacre
  • having a combined objective of suicide and murder
  • suicide after murder as a form of self-punishment due to guilt
  • considering one's suicide as the main act, but murdering e.g. one's children first, to avoid their becoming orphans, and/or to be together in an expected afterlife
  • joint suicide in the form of killing the other with consent, and then killing oneself.