@article{ref1,
title="A case of railway-related suicidal death due to falling on the rails in a weird position: An alternative form of hara-kiri?",
journal="Romanian journal of legal medicine",
year="2018",
author="De-Giorgio, F. and Vetrugno, G. and Spagnolo, A. and Martinotti, G.",
volume="26",
number="3",
pages="246-248",
abstract="In railway suicides, the interest of forensic pathologists is often limited to mere external inspections and autopsy findings. It is our belief that a global examination of these cases ought to be de rigueur because of the heavy burden of psychological connotations that the desire of being run over by a train usually carries. The typical position of those who decide to lay themselves across the rail tracks is usually functional to achieve death by decapitation, a sudden and unpainful method of committing suicide. Our case report deals with a man who, according to testimonies, chose to expose his abdomen to the passage of an oncoming locomotive. We focus on the similarities between this uncommon method of suicide and a typical intentional evisceration, the hara-kiri. © 2018 Romanian Society of Legal Medicine.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1221-8618",
doi="10.4323/rjlm.2018.246",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4323/rjlm.2018.246"
}