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- Assisted suicide [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Euthanasia [r]: The act of assisting in the death of an animal or patient, often to end suffering for an incurable disease; a painless death; sometimes called a mercy killing which may or may not be legal. [e]
- Suicide pact [r]: A pact or agreement between people to commit suicide together. [e]
- Mass suicide [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Masada [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jonestown [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Saipan [r]: Fought between 15 June 1944 and 8 July 1944, the U.S. capture of an island regarded by the Japanese as a key part of their innermost defensive line; caused the fall of the Tojo Government and its replacement with a less pro-war Prime Minister; became the first island base allowing significant attacks on Japan by B-29 long-range bombers [e]
- Guy Gabaldon [r]: A U.S. Marine who, at the Battle of Saipan, used the colloquial Japanese learned in his teens to convince 1,500 Japanese troops and civilians both to surrender and not to commit suicide [e]
- Mass suicide [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Seppuku [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Suicide attack [r]: A means of attack with a weapon guided by a human who will inevitably die in the attempt [e]
- Kamikaze [r]: Suicide attacks, specifically by Japanese aircraft in the Second World War, against military targets [e]
- Tokko [r]: In the Second World War, a doctrine of "special attack" involving suicide attack; it included kamikaze aircraft, but also manned torpedoes (kaiten), explosive-laden speedboats, soldiers with explosives on their bodies or on poles, etc. [e]
- Martyrdom attack [r]: Term of art in radical Islamism, referring to suicide attack [e]