TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Suspension without a knot in the noose
JO  - Medicine, science, and the law
A1  - Nithin, Md
A1  - Rani, Smitha
SP  - 113
EP  - 115
VL  - 54
IS  - 2
N2  - Most deaths by hanging are due to self-suspension. This may be carried out by a wide variety of methods, but a typical method of self-suspension is to attach a thin rope to a high point such as a ceiling beam. A 35-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging, where the ligature employed was not a typical knotted noose but instead an open iron chain anchored to the ceiling above.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0025-8024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025802413491248
ID  - ref1
ER  -