Murder-suicide

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A murder-suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or at the same time as, killing him or herself.

The combination of murder and suicide can take various forms, including:

Suicide to facilitate murder, as in suicide bombing
Suicide after murder to escape punishment
Suicide after murder as a form of self-punishment due to guilt
Having a combined objective of suicide and murder
- Considering one's suicide as the main act, but murdering one's children first, to avoid them becoming orphans, to be together in an expected afterlife, in the context of severe depression where the person feels he is sparing his loved ones from a horrible life, or simply just to experience the act
- Joint suicide in the form of killing the other with consent, and then killing oneself
- punishment - taking revenge on those deemed responsible and escaping the world seen as a terrible place, as in many school shootings.