Citation

Helaly AM, Ali EF, Zidan EM. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 2014; 36(1): 27-30.

Affiliation

From the Departments of *Forensic and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, and †Mental Health, Faculty of Education, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Dakahlia, Egypt.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PAF.0000000000000132

PMID

25470409

Abstract

Suicide represents the dramatic end of human life mostly in young age. In a 5-year retrospective study in Jeddah in the western Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 200 successful suicidal attempts demonstrated that hanging was the most common method of suicide with 72% of the cases, and males represented 77% of the total loses. Most fatalities were of the age range from 20s to 40s. Saudi cases constituted 18.5% of the death cases representing the second most common nationality of successful suicidal attempt in Jeddah after Indians who represented 23% of the entire study. Saudi fatalities were induced by hanging in 56% of the all Saudi deaths in contrast to about 83% in the Indian fatalities.

Language: en