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Senicide
Senicide or geronticide is the abandonment to death, suicide or killing of the elderly.
== History ==
Societal views and legal repercussions have varied greatly in regards to senicide.
Van Hoof, writing in 1990, examines 87 cases reports of older people in classical antiquity who have committed suicide.〔Van Hoof, Anton; ''From Autothanasia to Suicide.'' (London: Routledge, 1990) 35.〕 Of these suicides, he claims twenty were motivated by impatience, seventeen by humiliation, twelve by vanity, and ten by suffering. Van Hoof also provides statistics for the manner of the suicide, both successful and unsuccessful. Starvation was the most widely used, accounting for eighteen of the sixty-one cases available. Suicide via the use of weapons was second most prevalent making up thirteen cases, followed by the use of poison in eleven cases.〔Van Hoof 35〕 The use of various methods (seven different methods are reported in all) suggests that no particular technique was believed to be the most proper or entirely condemned. However, that Athens had a law focusing on suicide by hanging indicates that this manner of suicide was especially disdained, perhaps because the death was intimately connected with a structure that could not be easily removed, such as a tree. Thus, the act of purification, should it be deemed necessary, would be more difficult to perform.
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