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Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, die by suicide or be killed. Honour killing – the act of murdering a family member perceived to have brought disgrace to the family. Infanticide – the act of killing a child within the first year of their life. Mariticide – the act of killing one's husband (Latin: maritus "husband").
Banks shot dead three siblings, two nieces, one sister-in-law and two family employees. Charles Lawson, December 25, 1929, North Carolina. Lawson killed six children and his wife with a 12-gauge shotgun, bludgeoned the bodies to make sure they were dead, and then walked into the woods and shot himself.
Parricide refers to the deliberate killing of one's own father and mother, spouse (husband or wife), children, and/or close relative. However, the term is sometimes used more generally to refer to the intentional killing of a near relative. [ 1] It is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to acts of matricide and patricide .
A Kentucky woman police say killed her husband and sister before being shot and killed by her brother last week suffered with mental health problems, according to a court motion filed nearly 15 ...
Sororicide (from Latin sororicidium; from soror 'sister' and -cīdium 'killing') is the act of killing one's own sister.. There are a number of examples of sororicide and fratricide in adolescents, even pre-adolescents, where sibling rivalry and resulting physical aggression can get out of hand and lead to the death of one of them, particularly when a potent weapon is available or one is ...
After being commanded by his father, Judah, to perform his duty as a husband's brother according to the custom of levirate marriage with the late Er's wife Tamar, Onan instead refused to perform his duty as a levirate and "spilled his seed on the ground whenever he went in" because "the offspring would not be his", and was thus put to death by ...
v. t. e. Patricide (or paternal homicide) is the act of killing one's own father. The word patricide derives from the Latin word pater (father) and the suffix -cida (cutter or killer). Patricide is a sub-form of parricide, which is defined as an act of killing a close relative. [ 1] In many cultures and religions, patricide was considered one ...
The name Uma is used for Sati (Shiva's wife, who is the incarnation of Parvati) in earlier texts, [which?] but in the Ramayana, it is used as a synonym for Parvati. In the Harivamsa , Parvati is referred to as Aparna ('One who took no sustenance') and then addressed as Uma, who was dissuaded by her mother from severe austerity by saying u mā ...