Your assertion that the word suicide should carry more weight reminds me of complaints that describing a project as "stillborn" is insensitive to parents that have lost a baby, and that using the terms master/slave in technical documents is discriminatory.<p><a href="http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp</a>