self-deliverance

[ self-di-liv-er-uhns ]

noun

1. suicide.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-deliverance¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

In the end, McCarthy makes an urgent appeal to the ideas of Black agency and Black self-deliverance: “What of our magnificent insistence that we will pull this country into righteousness and justice by our own hands, by our own words and deeds and witness, by any means necessary?”

From Washington Post

In 1991, Kevorkian lost his medical license but continued crusading for this right, as a journalist, Derek Humphry, wrote “Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying.”

From Salon

The more real and oppressive the fit of fear the more enjoyable is the subsequent self-deliverance by a perspicacious laugh likely to be.

From Project Gutenberg

Into a rear room, across this, and into the dark hole, which Mamma had dignified by the name of closet, they carried their luckless prisoner, bound beyond hope of self-deliverance, gagged almost to suffocation, his eyes blinded to any ray of light, his ears muffled to any sound that might penetrate his dungeon.

From Project Gutenberg

The paper notes a dramatic rise in the number of people who asphyxiate themselves by tying plastic bags over their heads, a method recommended in Final Exit for "self-deliverance" within three to four minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive