fatal vs suicidal

fatal

adj
  • Causing death or destruction. 

  • Causing a sudden end to the running of a program. 

  • Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny. 

  • Foreboding death or great disaster. 

noun
  • A fatality; an event that leads to death. 

  • A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate. 

suicidal

adj
  • Pertaining to suicide. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. 

How often have the words fatal and suicidal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )