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  2. List of types of killing - Wikipedia

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    Suicide, intentionally causing one's own death. Altruistic suicide, suicide for the benefit of others. Autocide, suicide by automobile collision. 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 fire, often as a form of protest.

  3. Suicide terminology - Wikipedia

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    Self-harm type I and Type II result in no injury and nonfatal injury respectively, while Self-Inflicted Unintentional Death, often called accidental suicide, is self-harm that has resulted in death. It is defined as from self-inflicted injury, poisoning, or suffocation where there is evidence that there was no intent to die.

  4. Proximate cause - Wikipedia

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    In law and insurance, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact is determined by the "but for" test: But for the action, the result would not have happened ...

  5. Self-harm - Wikipedia

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    Self-harm refers to intentional behaviors that cause harm to oneself. This is most commonly regarded as direct injury of one's own skin tissues , usually without suicidal intention. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Other terms such as cutting , self-injury , and self-mutilation have been used for any self-harming behavior regardless of suicidal intent.

  6. Assault - Wikipedia

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    an attempt to cause or purposely, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to another; negligently causing bodily injury to another with a dangerous weapon (assault with a deadly weapon). [66] causing bodily harm by reckless operation of a motor vehicle (vehicular assault). [67] threatening another in a menacing manner. [68]

  7. Iatrogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Patients who die during or after an operation will still be considered iatrogenic deaths, but the procedure itself remains a better bet than the probability of death if left untreated. Other situations may involve actual negligence or faulty procedures, such as when pharmacotherapists produce handwritten prescriptions for drugs.

  8. Cause of death - Wikipedia

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    In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an autopsy needs to be performed by a pathologist. The cause of death is a specific disease or injury, in ...

  9. Mortal wound - Wikipedia

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    In Causation in the Law from Oxford University Press, the term "mortal wound" is given three meanings: (i) an injury that is likely to cause death to an average person under normal circumstances (ii) an injury that has a high likelihood of causing the victim death if left untreated medically; (iii) an injury that is likely to cause death even ...