autocide

Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.

Generally, autocide is most effective when applied to restricted populations (islands, etc.), but can be effective on parts of continents.

A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.

Five different autocides have been isolated from Myxococcus xanthus.

An act of suicide committed by crashing an automobile.

"Autocide is becoming the second most popular method for older teens to commit suicide," she said.

An act of killing someone with an automobile.

One who commits suicide.

For as Saint Auguſtine reaſons well againſt ſuch Autocides and ſelfe murtherers, it is rather a token of puſillanimity and lacke of courage in them, than otherwayes a marke of true reſolution to doe ſo; […]

The irony of Johnson's title is that only two years later this most professional of artists - poet, novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and sports journalist - killed himself at the age of forty-two. The autobiographer as autocide.