Planned complex suicide. An unusual suicide by hanging and gunshot
Blanco-Pampín, J.M.; Suárez-Peñaranda, J.M.; Rico-Boquete, R.; Concheiro-Carro, L.
American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 18(1): 104-106
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0195-7910 PMID: 9095312 Document Number: 479615
We report a case of planned complex suicide (PCS) by a young man who had previously tried to commit suicide twice. He was found dead hanging by his neck, with a shot in his head. The investigation of the scene, the method employed, and previous attempts at suicide altogether pointed toward a suicidal etiology. The main difference between PCS and those cases defined in the medicolegal literature as combined suicides lies in the complex mechanism used by the victim as a protection against a failure in one of the mechanisms.