Citation

Pradhan P, Jagdish Kamal Chander U, Venkatesan M, Sampath Kumar P. Indian J. Forensic Med. Toxicol. 2018; 12(3): 156-160.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. Deptartment of Forensic Medicine)

DOI

10.5958/0973-9130.2018.00151.2

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The deaths occurring due to causes which are not any disease process or ageing are called unnatural deaths. The unnatural deaths can be divided as per the manner as suicidal, accidental, homicidal or undetermined. The term 'suicide' refers to the deliberate act of taking one's own life. Common methods of suicide by female in India include hanging, poisoning, immolation, drowning and fall from height. The total number of 107 cases constituted unnatural female deaths autopsied from June 2013 to August 2014 out of which 44 cases were confirmed to be suicides constituting 41%. Maximum suicidal female deaths occurred between the age group of 21 - 30 years i.e.13 cases (30%). The number of cases of female suicide were highest amongst married group with 29 cases (66%), the illiterate and high school population had the maximum number of deaths with 13 (31%). It was observed that the middle class socio economic group had the highest deaths (43%) among different groups segregated on modified Kuppuswamy classification. Hanging was the method adopted by 24 number of victims to commit suicide (54%) followed by poisoning 11 victims (23%). Marital disharmony was the major cause constituted to 24 cases (54%). © 2018, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; Female; adult; human; suicide; Suicide; burn; Hanging; female; autopsy; loneliness; hanging; intoxication; jumping; social status; cross-sectional study; senescence; widow; educational status; Article; observational study; Marital disharmony; married person; divorced person