Delayed Death in Hanging

Toxicologic Laboratory Findings in Cases Reported with Hanging Death: a Two-Year Retrospective Study in Northeast Iran

Background: Suicide is one of the leading factors of death worldwide. Hanging is one of the most common methods of suicide. This study was designed to evaluate post mortem toxicology laboratory findings of subjects with hanging death in northeast Iran.  Methods: This study was carried out on reported cases with hanging death to Razavi Khorasan Province-General Office of Iranian Legal Medicine O...

Homicide-suicide (dyadic death): a case study of double hanging.

Murder-suicide, homicide-suicide, and dyadic death all refer to an incident where a homicide is committed followed by the perpetrator's suicide almost immediately or soon after the homicide. Homicide-suicides are relatively uncommon and vary from region to region. In the selected literature that we reviewed, shooting was the common method of killing and suicide, and only 3 cases of homicidal ha...

[Death by hanging and television (apropos of 2 cases)].

A Case of Suicidal Hanging—Death after Nine Days

years, suffering from melancholia for the last one month, living with her father lately, for three days removed to the husband's place. On the morning of the 9th February 1903 she was found hanging from the branch of a tree near the house by the mother-in-law, whose screams drew the attention of a male member of the house, who came up quickly and cut the rope and brought down the body. From the...

Photothermally induced delayed tissue death.

We report pronounced delayed tissue death in photothermal surgery performed on the livers of live healthy rats with highly concentrated sunlight (ultrabright noncoherent light). Exposure times and power levels were selected to produce immediate necroses of the order of hundreds of cubic millimeters. Pathology reveals that lesion volumes increase by up to a factor of 5 within approximately 24 h ...