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Meanings of take one's own life in English

To end one's own life purposefully.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "suicide"
        Examples for "suicide"
        1
        Health Minister Mark Drakeford said it was essential suicide risk was reduced.
        BBC
        2
        Groups working to help prevent suicide throughout the north-west have money problems.
        The Irish Times
        3
        A military official and state media said it was a suicide attack.
        Reuters
        4
        Her passions include suicide prevention, violence prevention, healthy relationships, housing and research.
        Radio NZ
        5
        In severe cases, it has been known to result in suicide attempt.
        Pubmed
        1
        The target had two options: return to China promptly, or commit suicide.
        Radio NZ
        2
        In that case all that's left for me is to commit suicide.
        The girl who played with fire
        3
        The legislation would also create an offence of incitement to commit suicide.
        Radio NZ
        4
        Goodspeed is not the first former reality show participant to commit suicide.
        Reuters
        5
        What do you think of people who commit suicide? She'd asked me.
        Welcome to the N.H.K.
        1
        Now it is unlawful to kill oneself, as stated above (Q.
        Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
        2
        Must one kill oneself to escape this visitation?
        Under Western Eyes
        3
        He points out that it is now very difficult to kill oneself by overdosing on tablets -instead they ruin the functioning of their liver.
        The Guardian
        4
        This has always seemed to me (not that it's any of my business, mind you) a particularly thoughtless and selfish way to kill oneself.
        The Lost Continent
        5
        But when the chances of being killed oneself are equal-well , Idon'tsee anything in it.
        The Keeper of the Door
        Usage of take one's own life in English
        1
        For it does need a strong dash of heroism to take one's own life.
        Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
        2
        To take one's own life is a sin, that is if the person is in his right mind.
        The Key to Peace
        3
        She had been taught that it was wicked to take one's own life, and that God was always kind.
        A Spinner in the Sun
        4
        If there is a legal right to take one's own life, there is no constitutional right, Michael Cush SC argued.
        The Irish Times
        5
        He doesn't believe in God, or that it is wrong to take one's own life, and he says he never wanted children.
        Australia Felix
        6
        The absolute ban on assisted suicide under Irish law would be "illogical" if there was a right to take one's own life.
        The Irish Times