The name "suicide" was first coined in the year 1651 by a Walter Charlton. Prior to that it was known (and regarded) throughout the English speaking world as 'self-murder'. Being regarded as self-murder the act was (naturally) a crime and as such was actually punished.

The actual name 'Suicide' is attributed to the act of 'self-termination'. The physical act of deliberately ending (or taking) one's own life. Nothing more, nothing less. Suicide refers to the physical act of self-destruction, and the name itself is said to mean:"the killing of self".

However, when the "self" is no longer the "self"... Which is to say... When the "self" has been (or is being) completely overwhelmed by intolerable pain/suffering/agony... It is NOT the "self" that one kills - it is the pain/ suffering/ agony which has become (or is becoming)"intolerable" that one kills (that has replaced the "self") that one kills - NOT the "self".

This killing of pain/suffering has a name. It is actually called PENACIDE. Whilst suicide refers to "the killing of self" the true universally unacknowledged  cause of suicide is actually PENACIDE.