1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Banas Medical College & Research Institute, Moriya, Palanpur, Gujarat
2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
3Resident Doctor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Sadikhusen G. Momin, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Email: momin.sadik@gmail.com, Contact: +917990447823
Online published on 24 September, 2025.
A popular pseudoscientific belief in Eastern Asia is a person’s ABO blood group is predictive of their personality, character and compatibility with others. There are several evidence of association of ABO blood group with various diseases and mental illness. Blood group AB individuals were found to be susceptible to an increased risk of cognitive impairment which was independent of geographic region, age, race, and gender, whereas blood type A is linked with increased incidence of smallpox.[1]
Our goal was to assess the relationship between blood type and suicide death.
A total of 271 cases of suicidal death were selected during the study period. All cases were brought to the mortuary of Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad with an alleged history of suicidal death, as per police papers. We selected those cases with a past history of suicide attempts, psychiatric illness and cases where suicide notes were found at the scene of the offense or from the clothes and belongings of the victim were included in this study. For that, cases of hanging, poisoning, burns, cut-throats, falls from height and railway injury were included. Blood was collected and Blood grouping was done by the conventional slide method using anti-sera.
As per our observation maximum suicidal death were observed in B positive blood group 95 (35.05%) cases followed by O positive 83 (30.63%) cases, A positive 75 (27.68%) cases, and AB positive 14 (5.17%) cases. Out of 271 cases, there are a much smaller number of suicidal death cases in Rh Negative blood groups. Most common method of suicide was hanging. Out of 210 cases of suicidal death due to hanging, 72 (34.29%) cases were blood group O positive, followed by 66 (31.43%) cases that were blood group A positive.
In present study, it was inferred that there is no definite correlation between various blood groups and suicidal death on an individual level. The percentage of blood group distribution in this region is relatively the same as the percentage of blood group distribution in suicide death cases.
Blood Group, Suicidal Death, Autopsy
