Citation

Buschmann CT, Guddat SS, Tsokos M. Rechtsmedizin 2010; 20(5): 419-422.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00194-010-0683-3

PMID

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Abstract

The case of suicide of a 29-year-old schizophrenic male who hanged himself in an atypical manner following partial circumcision is described and discussed. This was probably in the context of a long-lasting but currently acute exacerbated hebephrenic schizophrenia with hallucinatory-delusional symptoms. At autopsy, apart from the signs of atypical hanging, sentences and fragments of sentences resembling those of a suicide note were found written with a felt-tip pen and also superficially scratched on the skin over the entire body. The sentences were on the subject of suicide in a delusional form and were thus considered as having been written in close chronological connection with death. The unusual findings are presented and discussed as a supplement to the current literature. © Springer-Verlag 2010.

Language: de

Keywords

adult; human; suicide; Autopsy; male; autopsy; case report; Schizophrenia; hanging; article; automutilation; hallucination; delusion; disease exacerbation; Suicide note; hebephrenia; circumcision; Self-inflicted genital mutilation