Death from propofol: accident, suicide, or murder?

Suicidal Poisoning in Calcutta

Suicide or ' self-murder ' is regarded by the law as murder, a murder committed by a person on himself or herself (felo-de-se or felony committed on one's self). The verdict usually given by the coroner and other competent authorities in such cases is ' Death is due to suicide, whilst temporarily insane'. This expression is regarded as a charitable addition to relieve the suicide and his family...

Arsenic poisoning: acute or chronic? Suicide or murder?

The case of the death by arsenic poisoning of a 62-year-old white man is presented. One year prior to death, he developed intermittent bouts of severe gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarrhea, hyperpigmentation and keratosis of the skin, neutropenia, and Guillain-Barré-like neuropathy for which he was hospitalized several times. Urine test results 6 months prior to death indicating 36 mg/L ar...

[Strangulation: murder or suicide?].

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...

Naoyasu Motomura : School Crisis Intervention in Japan

School Crisis is defined as crisis occurred in and out ofschools. For examples, natural disaster (earthquake, volcanic eruption), crime, violence, terrorism, war, fire at school, traffic accident, diseases, suicide, other accidental events/diseases, bullying. Macy [2] classified school crisis into two types; that is, high-impact-low-・incidence traumatic events and low-impact-high-incidence trau...