TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - A case of railway-related suicidal death due to falling on the rails in a weird position: An alternative form of hara-kiri?
JO  - Romanian journal of legal medicine
A1  - De-Giorgio, F.
A1  - Vetrugno, G.
A1  - Spagnolo, A.
A1  - Martinotti, G.
SP  - 246
EP  - 248
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1221-8618
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4323/rjlm.2018.246
ID  - ref1
ER  -