TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Suicide by hypothermia with intentional partial undressing
JO  - Archiv für Kriminologie
A1  - Müller, Katja
A1  - Gehl, Axel
A1  - Ottens, Reinhold
A1  - Püschel, Klaus
SP  - 96
EP  - 101
VL  - 228
IS  - 3-4
N2  - Most cases of fatal hypothermia are accidental, often in connection with alcoholisation, homelessness, age-related confusedness and others. The phenomenon of paradoxical undressing may be observed. A paradoxical feeling of warmth in the advanced condition of hypothermia leads to the behaviour of undressing, partly or completely. Suicides with intentional hypothermia are rare. Fatal hypothermia often appears as a concomitant mechanism, e. g. in drug poisoning. The case report describes the fatality of a young woman dying from suicidal hypothermia. She was found partly undressed. This was part of her scheduled plan and not a consequence of paradoxical undressing.<p />  <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0003-9225
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -