Murder-suicide

Murder-suicide

A murder-suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or at the same time as, killing him or herself.

The combination of murder and suicide can take various forms, including:
* Suicide to facilitate murder, as in suicide bombing
* Suicide after murder to escape punishment
* Suicide after murder as a form of self-punishment due to guilt
* Having a combined objective of suicide and murder
** Joint suicide in the form of killing the other with consent, and then killing oneself
** Punishment - taking revenge on those deemed responsible and escaping the world seen as a terrible place, as in many school shootings.

Some cases of cult suicide may also involve murder. Conversely, many spree killings have ended in suicide.

External links

* [http://www.qprinstitute.com/CommunitiesDV.htm QPR Institute] statistics from a suicide prevention program


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