Suicidal Deaths an a Water Environment

Suicidal Hanging: Deaths from the Secondary Effects

a prisoner in the Cuttack Jail quarrelled with the female convict warder. In consequence of this quarrel she, on the evening of the 6th September 1902, made an attempt to hang herself. Making a rope by tearing up her cotton saree, she threw a noose round her neck, fastened the ends of the rope to the top bar of an Alipore pattern cubicle, in which she was confined, and sat down. An alarm was ra...

Water Dome - An Augmented Environment

The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the influence that a water dome has on a person. The following approach was used for this study: ( I ) A water display was used as a projection screen; ( 2 ) The illusion of being under water was created; and (3) Experiments with water domes of various sizes were carried out. Water display is a head mounted type water membrane. When the display is ...

Suicidal deaths in elementary school students in Korea

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of childhood suicidal deaths among elementary school students that occurred from 2011 to 2015 in Korea. METHODS The report form of each suicide case by the teacher in charge to the Education Ministry was reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS There were 19 suicidal deaths (12 boys, 7 girls) in elementary school students. T...

Analyses of suicidal deaths with shotguns in Istanbul, 1998-2007.

BACKGROUND In previous studies, some features of suicidal firearm deaths have been described, but series of suicidal deaths using shotgun are limited in the literature. The aim of the present study was to define several characteristics of suicidal shotgun deaths. METHODS In this study, we reviewed retrospectively 36,971 autopsy reports recorded by the Mortuary Section of the Forensic Medicine...

[Suicidal behavior in the prison environment].