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The Oxford English Dictionary defines the *noun* suicide as:

One who dies by his own hand; one who commits self-murder. Also, one who
attempts or has a tendency to commit suicide.

This definition would appear to apply to Wittgenstein.

Steven Belknap, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria