Suicide pact
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A suicide pact describes the suicides of two or more individuals in an agreed-upon plan. The plan may be to die together, or separately and closely timed. Suicide pacts are important concepts in the study of suicide, and have occurred throughout history, as well as in fiction.
Suicide pacts are generally distinct from mass suicide. The latter refers to incidents in which a larger number of people kill themselves together for the same ideological reason, often within a religious, political, military, and/or paramilitary context. Suicide pacts, on the other hand, usually involve small groups of people (such as married or romantic partners, family members, or friends) whose motivations are intensely personal and individual.
See also
- Liebestod
- "The Constitution is not a suicide pact," a recurring concept in American jurisprudence
- "Bridgend suicide incidents," where 24 teenagers committed suicide in early 2007 in Bridgend County
- Suicide prevention contract, the opposite of a suicide pact.
