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Suicide pill
Suicide pill: a concealed poison capsule, usually cyanide, carried to enable quick self-killing and avoid capture or interrogation; used by spies, U-2 pilots, and Nazi figures, with ancient hemlock precedents.
Suicide prevention
Suicide prevention: public health and clinical efforts to reduce suicide deaths and attempts. Key names: WHO LIVE LIFE, CDC 988. Facts: 720,000+ deaths yearly, means restriction evidence, national strategies.
Suicide Season
Suicide Season is the 2008 second studio album by British metal band Bring Me the Horizon, recorded with Fredrik Nordström in Sweden; it moved the band from deathcore toward metalcore and launched their later transformation.
Suicide Silence
Suicide Silence is an American deathcore band from Riverside, California, formed in 2002, known for the 2007 debut The Cleansing and the 2012 death of vocalist Mitch Lucker.
Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad (Task Force X) is DC Comics' government black-ops team of super-villains led by Amanda Waller, based at Belle Reve Prison. Debuting in 1959 and retooled in 1987 by John Ostrander, it spawned films (2016, 2021) and a 2024 video game.
Suicide Squad (2016 film)
Suicide Squad (2016), David Ayer's DCEU film starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and Jared Leto as Task Force X villains; $175M budget, $746M gross, 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, Oscar for Best Makeup, subject of the Ayer Cut campaign.
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay is a 2018 R-rated DC animated film directed by Sam Liu, written by Alan Burnett, in which Amanda Waller's Task Force X races villains for a mystical Get Out of Hell card; part of the DC Animated Movie Universe.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is Rocksteady's 2024 live-service looter-shooter set in the Arkhamverse, starring Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark fighting Brainiac-corrupted Justice League members; it earned a Metacritic 60 and cost Warner Bros. $200 million.
Suicide watch
Suicide watch is heightened monitoring of incarcerated people at imminent risk of suicide, from 5–15 minute checks to constant observation, often with tear-resistant smocks and padded cells; execution failures and solitary placement are documented harms.
Suicide, infanticide, and self-mutilation by slaves in the United States
Suicide, infanticide, and self-mutilation by enslaved people in the United States: self-directed acts under slavery, documented in shipboard reports, antebellum narratives, coroner inquests, and post-emancipation courts, with fragmentary evidence and racially unequal punishment.
Suicide's
Suicide's (Suicide's surf spot) is a year-round beginner surf break at Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz County, California, mapped as OpenStreetMap node 2330850553 (leisure=pitch, sport=surfing) inside Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary; distinct from Suicide Rock and Suicide Peak.
Suicideboys
$uicideboy$ (Suicideboys) are a New Orleans rap duo of cousins Ruby da Cherry and $crim, formed 2014, on their own G*59 Records; known for Memphis-influenced punk rap, 27 billion streams, and the Grey Day Tour.
SuicideGirls
SuicideGirls, aka SuicideGirls.com, is an alternative softcore pin-up website and community founded in 2001 in Portland by Missy Suicide (Selena Mooney) and Sean Suhl, featuring tattooed, pierced models, member journals, a $500 Set of the Day pay system, and Hopeful-to-SuicideGirl selection.
Suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge
Suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge claimed nearly 2,000 people since the bridge opened in 1937, before a continuous suicide-deterrent net was completed on January 1, 2024.
Suidae
Suidae, the pig family (hogs and pigs), Old World even-toed ungulates related to peccaries (Tayassuidae); 14–19 species in at least five genera, originating over 20 million years ago, including Sus scrofa, ancestor of the domestic pig.
Suidlanders
Suidlanders ("Southerners"): Afrikaner survivalist group founded 2006 in South Africa, preparing white conservatives for a predicted race war via evacuation plans, safe zones and paid membership; described by FATF and UNICRI as far-right and a promoter of the white genocide conspiracy theory.
Suihua
Suihua (绥化) is a prefecture-level city in central Heilongjiang, China, on the Songnen Plain's Hulan River basin; established 1885, prefecture-level city 1999; 3.394 million residents (2025), grain-producing economy, GDP 124.4 billion yuan (2024).
Suiko court's adoption of the twelve cap ranks and the Seventeen-Article Constitution
The Suiko court adopted the twelve cap ranks in 603 and the Seventeen-Article Constitution in 604, reforms traditionally attributed to Shōtoku Taishi and seen as early steps toward centralized, Chinese-style government.
Suikoden
Suikoden (Genso Suikoden, 幻想水滸伝) is Konami's RPG series begun in 1995, known for recruiting the 108 Stars of Destiny, True Runes, army battles, and its 2025 revival via HD remasters, STAR LEAP, and anime.
Suining
Suining (遂宁) is a prefecture-level city in central Sichuan on the Fu River, in the Chengdu–Chongqing economic circle; 5,325 km², 3.654 million people, known for the China Dead Sea, Guanyin culture, and lithium-battery industry.
Suisei
Suisei (すいせい, "comet") was a Japanese space probe built by ISAS and launched in 1985 to observe Halley's Comet, imaging its hydrogen cloud and measuring a rotation period of about 52 hours.
Suisei Planitia
Suisei Planitia (水星平原), a 569 km wide smooth plains region on Mercury approved by the IAU in 1976, named from suisei, the Japanese word for Mercury; near Caloris, thin crust, magnetic anomaly.
Suisoh
Suisoh (水槽) is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and trackmaker in Tokyo whose 2020 cover of "p.h." went viral and who released "MONOCHROME," the ending theme for the BLEACH anime, in 2024.
Suit
The suit, or lounge suit, is a matching set of garments that evolved from 19th-century country wear into the standard business attire of the 20th century.
Suita
Suita (吹田市, Suita-shi) is a city of about 387,000 people in northern Osaka Prefecture, bordering Osaka City. It hosts Expo '70 Commemorative Park, the Tower of the Sun, Senri New Town, and Panasonic Stadium Suita.
Suitability analysis
Suitability analysis, also called land suitability analysis, is a GIS method that rates and maps how suitable land areas are for uses like cropping or urban development.
Suitability mapping
Suitability mapping is a GIS method that appraises land areas by their fitness for a defined use, such as crops or urban expansion, to support planning.
Suitable Technologies
Suitable Technologies was a Palo Alto telepresence robotics company founded by Scott Hassan, known for its Beam remote presence robots, sold to Blue Ocean Robotics in 2019.
Suitcase nuclear device
A suitcase nuclear device, also called a suitcase nuke, is a small nuclear weapon carried by one or two people, matching the US SADM and Soviet nuclear backpacks.
Suite (music)
Suite (music): from French suivre, to follow; a multi-movement instrumental work with unifying elements. Covers the Baroque dance suite (allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue), orchestral suites, and later opera-ballet excerpt suites.