as in suicide
the act of deliberately killing oneself
the controversy over self-destruction accomplished with the assistance of a physician or other person
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Recent Examples of self-destruction
Shutting in a field without advanced computational modeling and parameter estimation is an act of economic self-destruction.
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Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
In setting Blood Hammer Girl in an exotic, vague past, Locklear takes the audience back to a supposedly simpler time while sending up the human penchant for self-destruction in any era.
—Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
There’s the White House and its malicious megaphone of mindlessness; the generative AI advocates and their pushy, pathetic ploys; the Major League Baseball owners and their dedication to self-destruction.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026
In the case of the misbegotten At the Sea, Amy Adams stars as Laura, a wife, mother and daughter who sees all of those parts of her life collide into self-destruction after a drunk-driving accident with her son Felix (Redding Munsell) in the car.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
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Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
In setting Blood Hammer Girl in an exotic, vague past, Locklear takes the audience back to a supposedly simpler time while sending up the human penchant for self-destruction in any era.
—Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
There’s the White House and its malicious megaphone of mindlessness; the generative AI advocates and their pushy, pathetic ploys; the Major League Baseball owners and their dedication to self-destruction.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026
In the case of the misbegotten At the Sea, Amy Adams stars as Laura, a wife, mother and daughter who sees all of those parts of her life collide into self-destruction after a drunk-driving accident with her son Felix (Redding Munsell) in the car.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
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“Self-destruction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-destruction. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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