Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue: 1

A Unique Case of Suicide Pact by Smothering: A Case Report

  • Author:
  • YS Prasad, T Millo
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 22 to 25

Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Online published on 20 February, 2014.

Abstract

A suicide pact is an agreement between two or more people to kill themselves. We are reporting a unique case of suicide pact by smothering of a family consisting of a 38 year old husband, a 34 year old wife and a 2 ½ year old daughter wherein the wife and the daughter were smothered to death by the husband who himself attempted suicide by slashing of wrists. A partner in a suicide pact giving voluntary consent to be smothered has never been reported in the literature and hence we felt the need to report such a unique case.

Keywords

Suicide Pact, Smothering, Suicide Note, Attempted Suicide