death vs suicidal

death

noun
  • Spiritual lifelessness. 

  • The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state. 

  • The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics. 

  • A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone). 

  • The collapse or end of something. 

  • Execution (in the judicial sense). 

suicidal

noun
  • Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. 

adj
  • Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. 

  • Extremely reckless. 

  • Highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part. 

  • Pertaining to suicide. 

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