Citation

Blanco-Pampín JM, Suárez-Peñaranda JM, Rico-Boquete R, Concheiro-Carro L. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1997; 18(1): 104-106.

Affiliation

Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9095312

Abstract

We report a case of planned complex suicide (PCS) by a young man who had previously tried to commit suicide twice. He was found dead hanging by his neck, with a shot in his head. The investigation of the scene, the method employed, and previous attempts at suicide altogether pointed toward a suicidal etiology. The main difference between PCS and those cases defined in the medicolegal literature as combined suicides lies in the complex mechanism used by the victim as a protection against a failure in one of the mechanisms.

Language: en