extended suicide

Homicidal behaviour in parents was also associated with common forms of psychiatric disorders and were manifested as the extended suicide phenomenon.

"The literature of maternal filicide is not large but it is clear: usually an extended suicide, the removal of the child from a situation the mother finds intolerable."

Ms. Shepard's readings, which build to a cry of spiritual emptiness, suggest that the novella may be an extended suicide note, though its meanings remain open to other interpretations.

One of Green's many fears for the publication of The Pale King is that it will be read as an extended suicide note, as an explanation for the ending that Wallace gave himself.

She is of the belief that family annihilators often kill their families in an "extended suicide" - that once someone has decided to kill themselves, they feel they are free to do "other heinous acts" because the perpetrator knows that nobody can get to him, because he is going to kill himself.

S. also planned to drown their mother in the bathtub, so it would have looked like an extended suicide of the mother, however, he changed this plan because she did not come home early enough and he feared that it would not be possible to cover the crime, because dawn was on to come.

The book is constructed around a pair of interlocking narratives - Nao's diary, which is really more of an extended suicide note, and the story of Ruth, a novelist who lives on Vancouver Island and one day finds washed up on the beach a package containing the diary and other artifacts.