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by verbatim 2498 days ago
Presumably most of these are accidental, which makes that an ill-fitting term.
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Is narcisside better?
Why does being accidental in nature make it an ill-fitting term? Suicide is not the only word to use the -cide suffix: genocide, regicide, homicide, uxoricide. The -cide suffix regards the act of killing, not of intention or purpose.
Suicide is defined as intentionally killing oneself.
But selficide refers to the -cide suffix, not to suicide.
But then again the "self" prefix means doing it to yourself, as in "self-portrait" (which is where "selfie" comes from): taking a portrait of yourself.

So "selficide" would mean killing yourself, i.e. the same thing as suicide.

No! It means the selfie killed you? Which would make it correct.
It seems okay. It would roughly translate to selfie-kill which is good enough for killed-by-selfie.