selficide

noun

1. (countable, informal, uncountable)Accidental death that occurs while trying to take a selfie in a dangerous environment.

   “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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2. (countable, uncountable)The metaphorical killing of the self.

   “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.'”