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Suicide
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14326b.htmThe act of one who causes his own death, either by positively destroying his own life, as by inflicting on himself a mortal wound or injury, or by omitting to do what is necessary to escape death, as by refusing to leave a burning house.
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