List of types of killing

Killing of self

• Suicide, intentional killing of your self
• * Autocide, suicide by automobile
• * Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician
• * Murder-suicide, a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders
• * Self-immolation, suicide as a form of protest, often by fire
• * Suicide by cop, acting in a threatening manner so as to provoke a lethal response from law enforcement

  Killing of other people

Killing of family

• Avunculicide – the act of killing an uncle.
• Familicide – is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain.
• Filicide – the act of a parent killing their child.
• Fratricide – the act of killing a brother ; also, in military context, death by friendly fire.
• 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 its life.
• Mariticide – the act of killing one's husband.
• Matricide – the act of killing one's mother.
• Neonaticide – the act of killing an infant within the first twenty-four hours or month of its life.
• Nepoticide – the act of killing one's nephew.
• Parricide or parenticide – the killing of one's mother, father, or other close relative.
• Patricide – the act of killing of one's father.
• Pedicide – the act of killing a child.
• Prolicide – the act of killing one's own children.
• Senicide – the killing of one's elderly family members when they can no longer work or become a burden.
• Siblicide – the killing of an infant individual by its close relatives.
• Sororicide – the act of killing one's sister.
• Uxoricide – the act of killing one's wife.

  Killing of others

• Amicicide – the act of killing a friend
• Androcide – the systematic killing of men.
• Assassination – the act of killing a prominent person for either political, religious, or monetary reasons.
• Capital punishment – the judicial killing of a human being for crimes.
• Casualty – death in wartime.
• Collateral damage – deaths during wartime due to imprecise or incorrect targeting or friendly fire.
• Democide or populicide – the murder of any person or people by a government.
• Ecocide – the destruction of the natural environment by such activity as war, overexploitation of resources, or pollution.
• Extrajudicial killing – killing by government forces without due process. See also Targeted killing.
• Euthanasia or mercy killing – the killing of any being for compassionate reasons; e.g., significant injury or disease.
• Familiaricide in commutatione eius possessio – the act of killing a family for their property and/or possessions.
• Femicide, gynecide, gynaecide, or gynocide – the systematic killing of women.
• Feticide – the act of killing a fetus.
• Gendercide – the systematic killing of members of a specific sex or gender.
• Genocide – the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
• Homicide – the act of killing of a person.
• Justifiable homicide - a defense to culpable homicide
• Human sacrifice – the killing of a human for sacrificial, often religious, reasons.
• Massacre or mass murder – the killing of many people.
• Murder – the malicious and unlawful killing of a human by another human.
• Manslaughter – murder, but under legally mitigating circumstances.
• Omnicide – the act of killing all humans, to create intentional extinction of the human species.
• Targeted killing – a form of assassination which is carried out by governments against their perceived enemies. See also Extrajudicial killing.
• Xenocide – the genocide of an entire alien species. Often used in science fiction, one famous example being the novel "Xenocide" by Orson Scott Card.

  Killing of superiors

• Deicide – killing a god or divine being.
• Episcopicide – killing a bishop.
• Regicide – killing a ruler, a King/Queen.
• Tyrannicide – killing a tyrant.

  Killing of animals, disease, and pests

• Algaecide – a chemical agent that kills algae
• Acaricide – a chemical agent that kills mites
• Avicide – a chemical agent that kills birds
• Bactericide – a chemical agent that kills bacteria.
• Biocide – a chemical agent that kills a broad spectrum of living organisms.
• Fungicide – chemical agents or biological organisms used to kill or inhibit fungi or fungal spores.
• Germicide – an agent that kills germs, especially pathogenic microorganisms; a disinfectant
• Herbicide – an agent that kills unwanted plants, a weed killer.
• Insecticide – an agent that kills unwanted insects.
• Larvicide – an insecticide targeted against the larval life stage of an insect.
• Microbicide – an agent used to kill or reduce the infectiousness of microorganisms.
• Miticide – a chemical to kill mites.
• Nemacide – a chemical to eradicate or kill nematodes.
• Parasiticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy parasites.
• Pediculicide – an agent that kills head lice.
• Pesticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy or repel a pest.
• Scabicide – a chemical agent for killing scabies.
• Spermicide – a contraceptive agent to render sperm inert and prevent fertilization.
• Teniacide – a chemical agent that kills tape worms.
• Theriocide - the act of killing sentient animals, especially mammals
• Vermicide – an agent used to kill parasitic intestinal worms.
• Virucide – an agent capable of destroying or inhibiting viruses.
• Vulpicide – the killing of a fox by methods other than by hunting it with hounds.

  Killing of intangibles

• Famacide, defamation or slander, the killing of another's reputation
• Linguicide, intentionally causing the death of a language
• Urbicide, the destruction of a city or the stifling of urbanisation