Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

An Unusual form of Complex Suicide — Case Report

  • Author:
  • Santhosh C.S., K.G. Vishwanthan, C. Selvakumar, Nawaz Bande
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 160 to 162

Dept. of Forensic Medicine, J.J.M. Medical college, Davangere - 4, Karnataka

Online published on 17 November, 2012.

Abstract

Suicidal deaths are not uncommon in India due to variety of reasons. To accomplish the suicide successfully a suicide may attempt more than one method depending upon the situation and the plan of the suicide. Cases with multiple simultaneous suicidal attempts (two or more) are known as complex suicides1,2. Handful of literature is available regarding the complex suicides. Here we present a case of complex suicide completed by a common method (hanging) with a variant course.

Keywords

Complex Suicide, Hesitation Cuts, Hanging, Suicide