[Suicide by hypothermia with intentional partial undressing].

نویسندگان

  • Katja Müller
  • Axel Gehl
  • Reinhold Ottens
  • Klaus Püschel
چکیده

Most cases of fatal hypothermia are accidental, often in connection with alcoholisation, homelessness, age-related confusedness and others. The phenomenon of paradoxical undressing may be observed. A paradoxical feeling of warmth in the advanced condition of hypothermia leads to the behaviour of undressing, partly or completely. Suicides with intentional hypothermia are rare. Fatal hypothermia often appears as a concomitant mechanism, e. g. in drug poisoning. The case report describes the fatality of a young woman dying from suicidal hypothermia. She was found partly undressed. This was part of her scheduled plan and not a consequence of paradoxical undressing.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archiv fur Kriminologie

دوره 228 3-4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011