Types of Killing

Killing of self[edit]

·         Suicide – intentional killing of self.

·         Autocide – suicide by automobile.

·         Medicide – a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician

·         Murder-suicide - a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders

·         Self-immolation – suicide by setting oneself on fire, a form of extreme protest.

·         Suicide by cop^{[citation needed]}– a suicide by acting threateningly, thereby inducing law enforcement personnel to shoot one to death.

Killing of family[edit]

·         Avunculicide - the act of killing an uncle.

·         Familicide - is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain.

·         Feticide (or foeticide) - the act of killing a fetus in the uterus or causing an abortion

·         Filicide – the act of a parent killing his or her son or daughter. ("filius" being Latin for son)

·         Fratricide – the act of killing a brother, also in military context death by friendly fire.

·         Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, commit suicide or be killed. See also Senicide.

·         Honour killing – the act of killing a family member who has or was perceived to have brought disgrace to the family.

·         Infanticide – the act of killing a child within the first year of its life.

·         Mariticide - the act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.

·         Matricide – the act of killing one's mother.

·         Neonaticide - the act of killing an infant within the first twenty-four hours or month (varies by individual and jurisdiction) of its life.

·         Nepoticide - the act of killing one's nephew

·         Parricide – (also Parenticide) the killing of one's mother or father or other close relative.

·         Patricide – the act of killing of one's father.

·         Prolicide – the act of killing one's own children.

·         Senicide – the killing of one's elderly family members when they can no longer work or become a burden. ("senex" being Latin for old man)

·         Sororicide – the act of killing one's sister.

·         Uxoricide – the act of killing one's wife ("uxor" being Latin for wife)

Killing of others[edit]

·         Amicicide – the act of killing a friend. ("amicus" being Latin for friend)

·         Androcide - the systematic killing of men.

·         Capital punishment – the judicial killing of a human being for odious crimes.

·         Democide - the murder of any person or people by a government

·         Ecocide - the destruction of the natural environment by such activity as war, overexploitation of resources, or pollution

·         Euthanasia (also mercy killing) – the killing of any being for compassionate reasons i.e. significant injury or disease.

·         Femicide (also Gynecide, Gynaecide, or Gynocide) – the systematic killing of women

·         Gendercide - the systematic killing of members of a specific sex, either males or females

·         Genocide – the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.

·         Homicide – the act of killing of a person ("homo" being Latin for man)

·         Human sacrifice – the killing of a human for religious reasons

·         Murder - the malicious and unlawful killing of a human by another human

·         Manslaughter - Murder, but under legal mitigating factors

·         Omnicide – the act of killing all humans, to create intentional extinction of the human species. ("omni" meaning all)

·         Paedocide - the act of killing a child or children.

·         Populicide – the slaughter of the people.

Killing of superiors[edit]

Giganticide: David hoists the severed head of Goliath.

·         Deicide – the act of killing a god or divine being

·         Dominicide – the act of killing one's master. (Latin: dominus for "master")

·         Episcopicide – the act of killing a bishop.^[1]

·         Giganticide – the act of killing a giant.

·         Regicide – the act of killing a king (Latin: rex, Gen. regis for "king")

·         Tyrannicide – the act of killing a tyrant.

·         Vaticide – the act of killing a prophet.

Killing of intangibles[edit]
·         Chronocide – the killing or wasting of time

·         Famacide – the killing of another's reputation, a slander.

·         Liberticide – the destruction of liberties.

·         Urbicide – the destruction of a city or the stifling of an urbanisation. ("urbs" being Latin for city)

·         Linguicide – intentionally causing the death of a language