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Words matter: the effort to eliminate “suicide bombers”

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Suicide prevention expert Robert Goldney of the University of Adelaide’s Discipline of Psychiatry is urging the public to adopt the term “homicide bomber” in lieu of the misleading and harmful term, “suicide bomber.” He argues that so-called “homicide bombers” rarely have the set of psychological conditions and motivations of a suicidal person, and that the [...]