What's the difference between patricide and suicide?

Patricide


Definition:

  • (n.) The murderer of his father.
  • (n.) The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Macbeth has been viewed as a play about the oedipal crime of patricide.
  • (2) Patricide patients' fathers were more punitive and shaming than control patients' fathers, and control patients' fathers were more stimulating and depriving than patricide patients' fathers.
  • (3) Where did she find the strength for this audacious patricide?
  • (4) A 34-year-old housewife who was arrested for patricide confessed that she had also killed six newborn infants between 1975 to 1983.
  • (5) A sense of relief was felt following the patricide rather than remorse.
  • (6) Patricide patients' mothers were more overinvolved and tolerant than control patients' mothers.
  • (7) Seven schizophrenics who committed patricide and both personality-disordered patients had a cruel and unusual relationship with their father.
  • (8) There's some moral ambiguity – he'll rough up crims to get what he wants, he's not a very good husband, and his most trusted ally is a patricidal psychopath – but in theory, there's little to differentiate it from, say, Prime Suspect or Cracker.
  • (9) Alice Morgan – said patricidal psychopath, played with delicious wickedness by Ruth Wilson – is one of TV's most unusual sidekicks.
  • (10) As one French commentator pointed out : “It’s rare that we witness a patricide first hand.” Jean-Marie’s decision to express himself in Rivarol , where he called for an alliance with Russia to save “the white world” among other suggestions, was seen as a blatant challenge to his daughter and her entourage.
  • (11) Seventeen female parricides (14 matricides, 3 patricides) were identified: in a remand prison (11), a Special Hospital (5), and a Regional Secure Unit (1).
  • (12) Two of the patricides had no psychiatric disorder but retaliated against violent fathers.
  • (13) In this regard the film’s psychologically dark and patricidal energies are inescapable: when pressed about his mother, Leon replies “let me tell you about my mother”, and blasts the inquiring blade runner in the groin; when Roy demands of Tyrell, “I want more life, fucker”, it’s the first and only swear word in the film, all the stronger for it, and for being addressed to a “father” who has unfeelingly engineered him, and not out of love fathered him at all.
  • (14) With his family newspaper condemning the flabbergasting "patricide" of Angelino Alfano, the PdL secretary widely seen as Berlusconi's heir who emerged as leader of the rebels, the 77-year-old arrived at the senate around 25 minutes into Letta's make-or-break speech "Italy is running a risk that is potentially fatal, without remedy," the prime minister told MPs, warning them of the damage to the country's economy and image that a government collapse and eventual fresh elections would inflict.
  • (15) The authors studied 10 men charged with patricide, including 2 men charged with both patricide and matricide and compared them with 10 schizophrenic patients who did not commit any crime.
  • (16) The authors reviewed the records of 10 men charged with patricide, including one charged with double parricide, all of whom had been examined at the Forensic Psychiatry Service of Bellevue Hospital from 1970 to 1983.
  • (17) Eight patients who committed patricide were diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenic illness and 2 patients received a diagnosis of personality-disorder.

Suicide


Definition:

  • (adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.
  • (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
  • (adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
  • (3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (4) In addition, pathological dexamethasone-tests may indicate an increased suicide-risk in these patients.
  • (5) The inhibition was irreversible, as well as time and concentration dependent, which indicates a suicide-inhibition type of metabolism.
  • (6) Murder-suicide occurs with an annual incidence of 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 person-years and accounts for approximately 1000 to 1500 deaths yearly in the United States.
  • (7) Depressive features in patients with CFS were similar to those of control subjects, but a trend toward suicidal behavior was noted.
  • (8) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
  • (9) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
  • (10) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
  • (11) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
  • (12) The toxicological findings of this case are compared to the results of two chloroquine suicide cases and discussed in the context of the referring literature.
  • (13) Two cases of suicide by related kidney donors following graft rejection and the death of the recipients are reported.
  • (14) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
  • (15) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
  • (16) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
  • (17) With a patient who in suicidal intention had orally taken a larger quantity of Bi 58 EC (dimethoate) especially the behaviour of the serum cholinesterase activity and the whole blood acetylcholinesterase activity was observed over a period of 38 days and it was compared with the clinical appearance.
  • (18) A new suicide vector (pKNG101) that facilitates the positive selection of double recombination events in Gram-bacteria has been developed.
  • (19) The findings suggest that learning disabilities may be an unrecognized factor which increases the risk of suicide attempts by adolescents.
  • (20) Awareness of problems that may arise in the physician-patient relationship may prevent such outcomes as suicide, anxiety, hypochondriasis, invalidism and psychotic symptoms.