Self Destruction by Using Multiple Methods in a Single Episode: A Case Report

Suicide means taking away of one's own life. India being a developing country adopts various means and methods for commission of suicide. Although the prevalence of suicide throughout the world is not accurately available, however, the reported rate of suicides is consistently higher among men as compared to women irrespective of age group. Employing multiple successive attempts and using various methods ultimately leading to suicidal death is rare in occurrence. Complex suicide refers to a suicide in which more than one suicide methods is adopted. Complex suicide is further subdivided into two types Primary (planned) and secondary (unplanned).

In the Forensic literature, complex suicides have been reported to account for about 1.5%–5.0% of all suicides. A young mentally disturbed person in the background of multiple substance abusers, with history of previous suicide attempt, which are the markers of severe psychopathology, adopted multiple means in the same occasion for commission of suicide is presented.