Suicide pacts are unique events, which involve two or more individuals. In such cases, the
initiator and the addicted victim decide to end their lives together in the same place and at …

Complex suicides are highly uncommon suicides in which multiple detrimental methods are
used simultaneously or in chronological succession. We retrospectively analyzed through …

Complex suicides refer to using two or more suicide modes. In the literature, complex
suicides are distinguished into planned and unplanned. Using multiple methods is related to …

Research on suicide has always been an area of particular interest in the forensic field. Over
time, classifications have been proposed to define different types of suicide. A category is …

Abstract About 1.5–5% of suicides are committed in a complex way. The present paper
reports the case of a 72-year-old man who committed suicide by throwing himself into the …

A suicide where the deceased has employed more than one means of ending his or her life
is defined as a complex suicide (CS). Forensic practitioners may face difficulties caused by …

Complicated suicides can be defined as incidents where death is caused by a subsequent
trauma rather than the primary injury. Deaths which occur as a complication of the suicidal …

Suicide in cancer patients has always been a subject of clinical studies, but the contribution
of forensic pathology to this phenomenon is poorly reported. With the aim of at least partially …

The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and characteristics (victims'
profiles, circumstances surrounding the incidents, and methods employed) of complex and …

The authors present the first case, to the best of our knowledge, of a preplanned suicide by
self-waterboarding. Waterboarding (WB) is a military method of torture in which water is …