cybersuicide

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noun

Suicide assisted by computer technology, such as suicide committed by several people simultaneously after meeting on the Internet.

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Meanings

nouncybersuicide (countable and uncountable, plural cybersuicides)

plural cybersuicides

  1. countableuncountableSuicide 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
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    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. countableuncountableThe 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

Origin

From cyber- + suicide.

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APA

cybersuicide. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybersuicide

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“cybersuicide.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybersuicide. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cybersuicide,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybersuicide.

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