Running method while destroying the object

Question

A few days ago my friend told me about the situation, they had in their project. Someone decided, that it would be good to destroy the object of NotVerySafeClass

Answer 1

Sounds like a horrible design. Can't you use smart pointer to make sure the object is destroyed only when no-one holds any references to it?

If not, I'd use some external synchronization mechanism. Synchronizing the destructor with a method is really awkward.