does self-resolve mean self-determination?

Context:

Seppuku, the ancient samurai ritual of suicide by self-stabbing, was long considered an honorable act of self-resolve such that despite the removal of cultural sanctioning, the rate of suicide in Japan remains hight with suicide masquerading as seppuku still carried out both there and abroad.

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