Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Among the methods of self-harm with suicidal purpose, hanging is the most common; classically, the subject fixes the end of a cable to a support placed at a higher height, on which the traction force given by the weight of the suspended body is applied, while the other end is passed around the subject's neck and secured with a knot. We present the case of a 56-year-old man found dead in his own home by his wife with an exercise rope fixed to a window and passed around his neck without a knot, with a discontinuous transversal groove, which, due to the absence of a knot and the furrow situation, had initially raised suspicions of being a simulated suicide.
Institutions: Sapienza University of Rome, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Language: English
Topic: Restraint-Related Deaths
Subfield: Emergency Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W6927425168
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