Complex Suicide: Unusual Combination

Zribi M,Jammeli K,Dhoueb R,Benamar W

doi:10.4172/2472-1026.1000111

Abstract

There are a great number of complex suicides in the literature. It is so interesting to expand the list and to publish more cases of complex suicide which are examined by forensic worldwide. It’s interesting to know the maximum of method that can be used by suicidal individuals. We present a case of a complex suicide of a young woman by using ingestion of paraphenylene Diamine associated with self-strangulation by a link. Self-strangulation is probably used to accelerate death or to reduce pain caused by the first method. Forensic autopsy and further tests confirmed the voluntary intoxication by PPD and showed signs of strangulation by a loose link. The circumstances of the facts and the judicial inquiry were in favor of self-strangulation without the intervention of another person. This case illustrates an example of complex suicide. To our knowledge, it is the first case of complex suicide involving intoxication PPD and self-strangulation.

Highlights

In 1974, Marcinkowski et al [1] had considered a general division of methods of suicide
We present a case of a complex suicide of a young woman by using ingestion of paraphénylène Diamine associated with self-strangulation by a link
Forensic autopsy and further tests confirmed the voluntary intoxication by PPD and showed signs of strangulation by a loose link

Summary

Introduction

In 1974, Marcinkowski et al [1] had considered a general division of methods of suicide. In this article we report the case of a young woman who committed a suicide by ingesting PPD. The young woman had neither psychiatric history nor suicide attempt. According to investigators, she was found by her mother around 16 PM, died in her room. A bottle containing a blackish powder was found. The latter has been sealed for toxicological analysis. The external examination showed a small build body, dark cyanic fixed and posterior lividity, rigidity in the four limbs and cyanosis sub inguinal. The dissection of the cervical region displayed ecchymosis and bleeding suffusions at the sterna-mastoid muscle in the left side making 6.5 × 2 cm (Figure 3), ecchymosis of the base of the tongue (Figure 4) and in the back of the esophagus (Figure 5)

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