selficide

English

Etymology 1

From selfie +‎ -cide.

Noun

selficide (countable and uncountable, plural selficides)

1. (informal) Accidental death that occurs while trying to take a selfie in a dangerous environment.
   • 2018 September 28, Jasper Hamill, “Scientists call for ‘no selfie’ zones to stop narcissists dying in ‘selficides’”, in Metro:

     Drowning, being hit by a vehicle or suffering a fall ^[sic] the most common causes of ‘selficide’.

   • 2018 November 3, Erin McCormick, Michael Safi, “'Is our life just worth a photo?': the tragic death of a couple in Yosemite”, in The Guardian:

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

   • 2019 January 23, Paula Froelich, “Selficide: The Dangerous New Addiction”, in Newsweek:

     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.

   • 2020, Ronald D. Smith, Strategic Planning for Public Relations, page 198:

     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

   • 2020, Tasawar Hannan, “Facebook 'Selficide': Are They Modern-Day Tragic Attempts of Our Symbolic Capital?”, in European Journal of Sociology, volume 3, number 1:

     (see title)

   • 2021 June, C. P. Rashmi, Ritu S. Sood, “Selfie Creating Dual Personalities: A Study of Selfie, Narcissism and Social Media”, in Journal of Content, Community & Communication, volume 13:

     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.

Synonyms

• killfie

Translations

death by selfie

• German: Selfizid m
• Greek: σελφοκτονία f (selfoktonía)

Etymology 2

From self +‎ -icide.

Noun

selficide (countable and uncountable, plural selficides)

1. The metaphorical killing of the self.
   • 1974, Maurice S. Friedman, The Hidden Human Image:

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

   • 1992, Thomas Patrick Malone, The Windows of Experience: Moving Beyond Recovery to Wholeness:

     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.

   • 2014, Ken Chapman, The Leader’s Code, page 17:

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

   • 2020, João M. Paraskeva, Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia:

     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.'

Translations

metaphorical killing of the self