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Jan Palach was a Czech student who committed suicide on 16 January 1969 by self-immolation in protest at the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Jan Palach and a group of other students had made a suicide pact, but the rest backed out of the pact once the well-publicised pleas Palach made on his deathbed described the degree of pain they faced.

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Picture taken in June 2001 in Guatemala City during the execution by lethal injection of Tomas Cerrate Hernandez, for the kidnapping and murder, together with Luis Amilcar Cetino, of businesswoman Isabel de Botran.
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Evelyn McHale is probably the most famous Empire State Building suicide victim. On May 1, 1947 Evelyn leaped from the 86th-floor observatory in 1947 and landed on the roof of a United Nations limousine parked on the street below. Her suicide note read: “I don’t want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don’t have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don’t think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother’s tendencies.”
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A suicide by beheading via a train accident in Baltimore. The deceased was likely a patient at a nearby psychiatric hospital. Picture credit to officer Tony Pentralia. 
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A woman’s suicide by overdose, c. 1940
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Types of homicide-suicide ‘Standard cases’ involve individuals who are well known to each other. Often, one spouse (most often male) may kill the other then kill him/herself. Sometimes, a parent may kill one or more children and/or spouse before committing suicide. Determining the underlying reasons that lead to dyadic death is understandably not easy, but deterioration in relationships between spouses appears to be a crucial factor. A significant proportion of cases involve mother who kill their children and then themselves - many of the perpetrators suffer from depression and choose relatively non-violent methods of death. This had led to the proposal that dyadic death in these instances reflect an extension of the act of suicide. Homicide followed by delayed suicide perhaps stretched the accepted definition of dyadic death, especially when the time interval between the two events is quite long. This is particularly true when suicide follows arrest of the perpetrator and then the act of suicide did not appear to be part of the original plan. Random strikes against strangers  may be carried out by individuals who carry a weapon and target people who are not known to them, with the apparent aim of killing as many people as possible. Often these attacks are carried out by perpetrators who have a military interest. Religious and/or politically motivated attacks are primarily intended to kill as many people of a different faith/background as possible. Usually, the suicide of the perpetrator is an integral part of the attack.
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Edouard Manet - The Suicide
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A distressed woman attempting suicide on the street.
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An Islamic suicide bomb attack in Iraq.
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People’s Temple Jonestown Massacre, Guyana
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10 Most Notorious Suicide Cults in History

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