1. The act of using the simplest solution to a problem, whether or not it's the best one.
2. The act of committing suicide. Generally used (along with other euphemisms) in various settings to avoid using the word "suicide" in any context, because it triggers some people.
After going through a series of traumatic events and losses, Bill decided that taking the easy way out would be his only option.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)