destruction of oneself or itself; specif., suicide
Examples of 'self-destruction' in a sentence
self-destruction
Enough already with this wilful self-destruction by our supposedly virtuous childhood icons.
The Sun (2009)
Working at a hostel, one gets used to bold comments about violence and self-destruction from the homeless.
Alexander Masters STUART: A Life Backwards (2005)
She brilliantly captures the intoxication of romance and treads the thin line between self-discovery and self-destruction with total conviction.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But given our current capacity for total self-destruction, we cannot afford to wait for another global war to restore our will to make the world better again.