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An altruistic suicide is when someone kills themselves for the benefit of others, or for the greater good. French sociologist Emile Durkheim categorized suicide as either altruistic, egoistic, anomic, and fatalistic. Altruistic suicide examples would be an elderly person, in some societies, who commits suicide as they reach old age or become ill, so as to not be a burden to their community. Another example would be that of a soldier knowingly entering into a lethal situation to save the lives of others.