Citation

Chauhan MS, Behera C, Naagar S, Sreenivas M. Med. Leg. J. 2016; 84(4): 215-218.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Medico-Legal Society, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

10.1177/0025817216661118

PMID

27465314

Abstract

Ingestion of a foreign body is mostly accidental in children and intentional in prisoners to achieve hospitalization; however, use of this method of suicide is rare. We report a case where the victim first ingested a safety razor blade, but failed to die and then hanged himself, but failed again and finally succumbed to the complications on the sixth day. He had also attempted suicide by inflicting multiple incised wounds on his neck four days before the safety blade ingestion, but none were fatal.

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Language: en