Talk:List of types of killing

Killing of President or Prime Minister
Given the current situation in Niger, I found myself wondering what the equivalent of regicide would be for a president or prime minister. I was thinking of words like Premicide (killing of a premier), Primicide (killing of a prime minister), or execucide (killing of an executive), but I can't find any real/confirmed use of these words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.91.13.53 (talk) 23:38, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Menticide
Shouldn’t menticide be included?

Aborticide vs feticide
I propose changing "aborticide" to "feticide". "Aborticide" is both illogical in its etymology (one is not killing an abortion, but a foetus) and far less commonly used than "feticide" (according to some searches for each term). EthicsEdinburgh (talk) 19:28, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Underlinked
This should be linked in way more navboxes and articles. I almost recreated it. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:14, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Categories: Murder, Homicide
Re these edits, in which and I disagree about what categories the article should be in ...

What general criteria should we use to decide what categories the article should be in? I assert that and  are not appropriate because many of the items in the list/article are not homicide or murder, but Hmains disagrees, saying that "part ... is more than sufficient". By that logic we should add (there's a whole section, with multiple entries),  (there's quite a few of those listed),  (quite a few of these listed),  (many of the entries are),  (there's a bit of that in there),  (plenty of that), ... all of which seems to be a bit of overkill.

I still maintain, per my original edit that and  are inappropriate because many of the entries in this list are not homicide or murder.

What do other editors think. Mitch Ames (talk) 00:44, 2 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Too general for either category. While homicide is the act of killing of a person, doing so is not necessary a crime, so murder is far too restrictive. However, this article's scope is larger than the killing of people and the term applies to all forms of life and sometimes inanimate objects or intangible concepts, too. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 01:21, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Abortion
I propose adding abortion to the list above, or below, feticide. While the topic is rather controversial, it is a type of killing, and a specific type at that: the killing of a fetus within the first few months of conception. This makes it notably different from feticide, as feticide is not restricted by a timeframe. While this article should in no way be part of the discussion whether or not abortion is the killing of human life or just a clump of cells etc etc, I propose it is added for the sake of completeness. It's an often used term with a very specific definition, and for that reason should be included. 77.172.92.195 (talk) 21:46, 8 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Abortion is a medical term that means "termination of a pregnancy". It doesn't necessarily convey the act of killing a fetus, as it can also be used to describe a miscarriage or stillbirth. A "spontaneous" abortion can often occur naturally and an "induced" abortion is a medical procedure that is performed to deliberately terminate a pregnancy, whether the fetus is viable or not. In cases where the child is viable and born alive, the term "induction" is used. The legality of this medical procedure depends on jurisdiction, and whether killing is involved is a very murky area of opinion and morality. In English law, a child has to be fully born and separated from the mother before being considered a person, so the act of "killing an unborn child" (i.e. fetus) is available in the law of some jurisdictions for this sort of killing. I think one needs to distinguish between the act of killing i.e. feticide, and method of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of legality. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 02:12, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

RfC on issue of adding Abortion
Arguments were dismissed out of hand by User talk:Hmains. Requesting RfC. 77.172.92.195 (talk) 09:52, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I have removed the tag since this is not a valid WP:RFC. In particular, please read WP:RFCBEFORE. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 18:24, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Large list of words for consideration from third party
While looking for the word "ethnocide" I came across a website "http://www.fun-with-words.com/cide_words.html" that has a large list of "-cide" that could be looked at and potentially integrated into this list. Duaner02 (talk) 21:40, 24 September 2021 (UTC)Duaner02

Manslaughter - Include self-defense?
Hello, would it be right to include the article Right of self-defense to the area "Killing of others" under the manslaughter bullet point?

As I understand it, the western view of self-defense is not necessarily a universal one, but it's probably something that is worth mentioning in the English version of this page, right? Sawta (talk) 00:03, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Why is "drown" or "drowing" not on the list of different types of killing?
There exist times in the past when there existed two people $$x$$ and $$y$$ such that person $$x$$ intentionally drowned person $$y$$. For example, this has happened sometimes while performing the Water cure (torture) Muldoonsamuel55 (talk) 14:14, 18 December 2023 (UTC)