self-destruction

Definitions of self-destruction

1. noun

   the act of destroying yourself
   “his insistence was pure self-destruction”

   type of:

   destruction, devastation

   the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
2. noun

   the act of killing yourself
   synonyms: self-annihilation, suicide

   types:

   assisted suicide

   suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible

   felo-de-se

   an act of deliberate self destruction

   hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari, seppuku

   ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society

   suttee

   the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband

   physician-assisted suicide

   assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician

   type of:

   kill, killing, putting to death

   the act of terminating a life