Synonyms for death wish
death wish

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1. death instinct, death wish, Thanatosnoun

   (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die

   Synonyms:
   death instinct

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1. • Psychoanalysis
   • Urge

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1. Eugène Ionesco:

   Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

2. John Ligato:

   He never ran and he never ducked, you know, it’s just amazing. I don’t know if he had some sort of death wish or what — Gunny says that he just gets into a zone and does what he has to do. ... I don’t know how the bullets didn’t hit him.

3. Lara Garey:

   I tell people all the time it’s a death wish, for sure, it takes your breath away. Everything you thought is completely turned on its head – in a moment we went from this family that had a man-child of a son and was hoping he would get out of high school and go to college, and Tom and I would retire and enjoy our lives and just enjoy the future – to being told you have ALS, and it takes that away from you.