Citation

Michalodimitrakis MN, La Grange R, Tsatsakis AM. J. Clin. Forensic Med. 1997; 4(2): 91-94.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/s1353-1131(97)90080-8

PMID

15335586

Abstract

Alcohol is the most often detected substance in the body of a person who has committed suicide. It may be used to reduce the last instinctive hestitations to taking one's own life. Suicide is common in cancer patients. People with cancer-related depression often use alcohol as a means of coping but they very rarely use it in order to kill themselves through acute intoxication. However, a case of a cancer patient who committed suicide consuming two bottles of spirit was recently investigated and the conclusions are presented. The post-mortem cardiac blood and vitreous humor alcohol level was found to be 9.0 and 6.2 mg/ml respectively.

Language: en