Definitions
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- noun A supposed
suicide attempt that was not intended to succeed.
Etymologies
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para- + suicide, coined by Norman Krietman in 1977.
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Examples
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In the outback, the phenomenon of white-boy self-destruction intersects with Aboriginal recklessness, suicide and parasuicide.
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