Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 1

Trends of Suicides in and around the City of Bilaspur (CG)- a Retropective Study

Professor, Forensic Medicine, VMKV Medical College, Salem, Tamilnadu, India

Online published on 5 January, 2015.

Abstract

Committing suicide in most of the cases is an escapist work. It is the latest resort to fly over from stress and strains of life. In most of the situations it also reflects the push and full in a society

During the period of the year 2001 to 2003 the dead bodies of the deceased who had committed suicide & brought to the mortuary of C.I.M.S, Bilaspur were autopsied. Their age, sex, socioeconomic status, educational status, mode of committing suicide were taken into account in the study & presented in tabulated form.

This study mirrors the social trends in and around Bilaspur city.

Keywords

Suicide, Trend, Poisoning, Burn