#self-destruct

• To self-devour — To destroy, consume, or eat oneself. In cell biology, it describes the structural process of autophagy through which a cell degrades its own damaged components to survive, whereas in a figurative or literary sense, it refers to a person consumed and ground internally by destructive passions, remorse, or hatred.
• Self-devouring — The act of self-devouring and its result; a physiological or pathological process through which an organism, cell, or tissue consumes or destroys its own constitutive structures. In cell biology, it represents the equivalent of the structural process of autophagy, whereas in a figurative or psychological sense, it describes intense inner turmoil caused by remorse, obsessions, or destructive moral suffering.
• Self-destroying — Possessing the capacity, property, or function to automatically destroy itself; a device, system, or code structurally programmed to cause its own structural annihilation or definitive deletion under specific predefined conditions to protect confidential data or prevent accidents.
• To self-destruct — To cause one's own destruction, annihilation, or total dissolution; to undergo an autonomous process through which the component elements of a structural system, living organism, or mechanism self-cancel or definitively decompose without the intervention of an external destructive force.
• Self-destruction — The act of self-destructing and its result; the automatic or voluntarily triggered destruction of a system, vehicle, equipment, or software code, or a pathological behavioral manifestation through which an individual sabotages their own life, health, or emotional balance.
• Self-destructed — Having destroyed itself through its own internal mechanisms, without an external destructive force; a system collapsed by the activation of an autonomous safety protocol, or a person morally or physically ruined due to their own mistakes and vices.