Discovery Of Body Research Articles

A case report of complex suicide in physician: attempt drugs poisoning and adhesive tape asphyxia.

Complex suicides are rare occurrences that can be categorized into planned (or primary) cases and unplanned (or secondary) cases. Additionally, individuals often select suicide methods based on their availability and accessibility.The body of a 58-year-old man was discovered deceased inside his medical office. He was found seated on the waiting room sofa, with his airways obstructed by several layers of adhesive tape wrapped around his head. An intravenous needle was observed in his left arm, and on the table in front of him, an empty 50ml syringe, two empty vials of 10ml potassium chloride, and an empty 10mg vial of Valium (diazepam) were found. A roll of adhesive tape, similar to the one around his head, was also present. The autopsy, conducted 36h after the body's discovery, revealed therapeutic concentrations of diazepam and its metabolite nordiazepam in the blood samples, while potassium chloride was not detected.Integrating forensic findings obtained from autopsy, histology, and other postmortem investigation, including toxicological analysis, can aid in defining suicidal behavior and preventing misinterpretation, particularly in differentiating diagnosis between homicide and suicide. It is crucial to consider circumstantial data and professional knowledge in such cases.

Forensic Characteristics of Body Abandonment by Housemates in Japan.

In Japan, many cases occur wherein housemates fail to report dead bodies found in their homes. However, only individual cases are reported through press and court records, and analysis including unreported cases has not been conducted. In this study, we evaluated cases handled by our Forensic Science Department in which housemates did not immediately report a dead body found in their home. We analyzed the overall picture and forensic characteristics of such cases, stratifying whether the abandoners were estimated hikikomori. Of the 1,179 legal autopsy cases handled by the Department of Forensic Medicine of Tokai University from January 1, 2017, to July 1, 2023, we evaluated 45 cases in which housemates did not immediately report dead bodies. The characteristics analyzed were body age,cause of death,autopsy findings,duration from the body's discovery by the abandoner to the police report,the reason for the lack of report in the first body discovery by the abandoner,and the reason for the report.In this study, the criteria for estimating whether a hikikomori abandoned the body were (1) the police provided the information that the person was a hikikomorior (2) the person met the following four criteria: 20-64 years old,unemployed,not in school,and living with parents. Positive significant differences were found in the body's decomposition and the time from the body's discovery to the report to the police when the abandoner was suspected to be a hikikomori for more than one, four, or eight days. No significant differences were found in the cause of death. Regarding the reported characteristics, when the abandoner was an estimated hikikomori, positive and significant differences were found for recognizing the bodyand did not report immediately due to shock.Conversely, negative and significant differences were found for the person who reported as the abandoner. This is the first study that reports on body abandonment by housemates and elaborates on its complications to forensic doctors. The incidence rate of abandonment is higher than expected. This study suggests that hikikomori are more likely to hide the bodies for longer, which hinders the death cause investigation.

Emmett Till, Justice, and the Task of Recognition

murder of the African American teenager Emmett Till in 1955 and the acquittal of his confessed murderers constitute watershed events in the American Civil Rights movement whose legacy continues into the present. Many people can vividly recall their first viewing of Emmett Till's postmortem picture, which shows a bloated and disfigured body lying in an open casket or on the coroner's slab, and cite it as a consciousness-altering moment in their lives. power of those images and the story leading up to them continues into the present. In a 2004 press release in which the Department of Justice announced the reopening of the nearly 20-year-old case, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, R. Alexander Acosta, is quoted as having stated, The Emmett Till case stands at the heart of the American civil rights movement ... This brutal murder and grotesque miscarriage of justice outraged a nation and helped galvanize support for the modern American civil rights movement. We owe it to Emmett Till, and we owe it to ourselves, to see whether after all these years, some additional measure of justice remains possible (USDOJ). remarkable feature of the Emmett Till case-sadly not the only incident of a racially motivated murder in the Jim Crow South-is its visibility. Indeed, the visual accessibility of the multiple stages in this case-from the body's discovery to its burial to its deliberate and disturbing display at the funeral, and extending even to its virtual visibility in a Mississippi courtroom-set this episode in the history of civil rights agitation apart from others. As this article will demonstrate, the exceptional invocation of the power of the visual in this event illustrates a key concept in play on both sides of the civil rights argument-namely, how the mechanics of visual recognition are central to a concept of humanity. This article examines three major sites wherein Emmett Till's body was figured as a spectacle-the funeral home/morgue, the funeral, and the trial. Taking into account how each of these venues might position the spectator in a specific way, the article analyzes how issues of distortion and misrecognition are negotiated in relation to an overarching notion of humanity. As I will demonstrate, these visually oriented events derive their power in part by appealing to the same rhetorical and ideological features of traditional memorial photography, the memento mori's Nevertheless, in the representation of a disfigured body, the spectator's visual encounter is significantly different than that of the memento mori's viewer. In this case the visible dead body not only instructs the spectator on issues of mortality but also illustrates the sometimes frustrating relationship between mortality and justice. Without denying that the images in the Emmett Till case-especially the images of his dead body-are powerful because they are perceived as supplying documentary evidence of a brutal act, this article asserts that the spectacle of Till's body is rooted in a visual aesthetic and ideology other than realism. This nonrealist logic is an essential misrecognition required by the concept of humanity. spectacles and images of Till's body accomplish their political work by situating an unrecognizable body that is, nevertheless, recognized by the spectator as human into a narrative of human suffering. After assessing the effect produced by visually beholding the human body, this article concludes with the site in which the acts of recognition and narration are made fundamentally political-the courtroom. A series of image-centered events punctuated the Emmett Till lynching, funeral, and trial of 1955. Several elements of the story of Till's murder have been contested, including how many people were involved in the actual abduction and murder (the case has been recently reopened in hopes of resolving these questions); however, the crux of the story is that 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till of Chicago, IL, was visiting his great-uncle Moses Wright, a share cropper, and other relatives in Mississippi on a summer vacation. …