deathstyle

English

Etymology

From death +‎ style, based on lifestyle.

Noun

deathstyle (plural deathstyles)

1. A harmful, self-destructive lifestyle.
   • 2010, Richard Benyo, Timeless Running Wisdom, page 155:

     In many cases they learn their deathstyle from their parents. We are seeing the first generation of people in the United States who will likely die younger than their parents did.

   • 1996, John Bradshaw, Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem:

     Addiction has become our national lifestyle—or deathstyle. It is a deathstyle based on the relinquishment of the self as a worthwhile being to a self who must achieve and perform or use something outside of self in order to be lovable and happy.