Meaning of selficide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Accidental death that occurs while trying to take a selfie in a dangerous environment.
   countable, informal, uncountable
2. The metaphorical killing of the self.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Drowning, being hit by a vehicle[, and] suffering a fall⟳ [are] the most common causes of ‘selficide’.”

“A recent study⟳ documented 259 deaths worldwide caused by people taking selfies – dubbed “selficides” by the researchers – between October 2011 and November 2017.”

“Selficides were already in the news last⟳ weekend, when it was revealed that an Indian couple who fell to their death at Yosemite National Park⟳ had alcohol in their system.”

“This situation is becoming increasingly common, even coining the new term selficide where people die⟳ in pursuit of extreme selfies, and is not something any crisis playbook of the past would anticipate”

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“According to an article published in Economic times named 'Global addiction: Selfie's facts and moments from around the world.' (economictimes) States that millennia‟s age 18-34, 82% of them are selfie takers (2018 fact), 259 selficide ie deaths caused while taking Selfie‟s (Bureau, 2019) reported by All India institute of medical sciences in the year 2011-2017, half of which were reported from India followed by Russia, United States and Pakistan.”

“Even Dostoevsky's supposedly Christlike character Prince Myshkin ends in a suicide, or more literally, "selficide," […]”

“This "rigor mortis" is selficide. The person literally "lives out" his life, with little difference in his experience⟳ when he is five, sixteen, forty, or seventy years old. Self never emerges.”

“On one level, selficide is the failure to learn⟳ and grow⟳ from life's experiences.”

“In a way, to upgrade Gil's (2009) arguments, a palpable 'selficide' is systematically produced by blocking 'truth' from itself and from the very own⟳ self, a self that can only exist⟳ 'in inner violence.'”

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