self-annihilation

[ self-uh-nahy-uh-ley-shuh n, self- ]

/ ˈsɛlf əˌnaɪ əˈleɪ ʃən, ˌsɛlf- /

self-destruction; suicide.

surrender, abnegation, or immolation of the self in mystic contemplation of or union with God.

Origin of self-annihilation

First recorded in 1640–50

So she has to be perfect and self-sacrificing to the point of self-annihilation.

Postpartum Stigma: Why My Patient Committed Suicide |Jean Kim |August 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
As for me who pretended to nothing, I thought all succeeded well, inasmuch as all tended to self-annihilation.

The Autobiography of Madame Guyon |Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
For religion is not the longing for self-annihilation, but for self-completion, it is the longing not for death but for life.

Tragic Sense Of Life |Miguel de Unamuno
This condition the Sufis characterise as self-annihilation (Fana).

Mystics and Saints of Islam |Claud Field

It is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.

Discourses of Keidansky |Bernard G. Richards
He denounced caste; he preached poverty, asceticism, self-annihilation.

The Hermits |Charles Kingsley

self-annihilation

the surrender of the self in mystical contemplation, union with God, etc