Parricide
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Parricide is defined as: (i) the act of killing one's parents (i.e. mother and/or father) or; (ii) a person who commits such an act.
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Notes
Various defintions exist of the term parricide. The biggest discrepancy is whether or not the killing has to be defined as a murder (usually killing with malice aforethought) to qualify as a parricide.
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Comparison
Compare with matricide (the killing of one's mother), filicide (the killing of a child by his or her parent), fratricide (the killing of one's sibling, in particular a brother-compare to sororicide), regicide (the killing of a king), suicide (killing oneself) and homicide (killing another person).
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