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Re:List of selfie-related injuries and deaths by aeroblop on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:35AM (#20675762)
Why does being accidental in nature make it an ill-fitting term? Suicide is not the only word to use the -cide suffix: genocide, regicide, homicide, uxoricide. The -cide suffix regards the act of killing, not of intention or purpose.
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Re:List of selfie-related injuries and deaths by JoeAltmaier on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:42AM (#20675827)
Suicide is defined as intentionally killing oneself.
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Re:List of selfie-related injuries and deaths by jgtrosh on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:48AM (#20675878)
But selficide refers to the -cide suffix, not to suicide.
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Re:List of selfie-related injuries and deaths by mirkonasato on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:13AM (#20676134)
But then again the "self" prefix means doing it to yourself, as in "self-portrait" (which is where "selfie" comes from): taking a portrait of yourself.

So "selficide" would mean killing yourself, i.e. the same thing as suicide.

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Re:List of selfie-related injuries and deaths by JoeAltmaier on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:14AM (#20676147)
No! It means the selfie killed you? Which would make it correct.
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