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.