Planned and unplanned complex suicides: Casuistry of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Parma (Italy)

Legal Medicine
Antonio BanchiniRossana Cecchi

Abstract

Complex suicide is performed using more harmful methods, simultaneously or consecutively. In these cases, the distinction between suicide and homicide represents a challenge for forensic pathologists. In literature, complex suicide is divided in two subgroups: "planned complex suicide" or "unplanned complex suicide" depending from forensic features and often related to psychiatric variables. Aim of this study was to show the casuistry of complex suicide in Parma's Forensic service analyzing, for each case, the forensic medical problems (type and site of lesions on the body), and the supplementary data [Police's inspection report, toxicological analysis and psychiatric anamnesis (when available)], trying, through a multidisciplinary approach, to determine a possible correlation between the victim's mood and suicide's method chosen, whether planned or unplanned. Our results showed the importance of all the elements collected on the crime scene to distinguish suicide from homicide, and the correlation between bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia with unplanned complex suicide (because of the impulsiveness), and major depression disorder and anxiety disorder with planned complex suicide. Being able to...Continue Reading

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Dec 1, 2020·Forensic Science International : Synergy·Mikiko SoejimaYoshiro Koda
May 27, 2020·Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine·Francesco SimonitLorenzo Desinan
Feb 17, 2021·Medicine, Science, and the Law·Francesco SimonitLorenzo Desinan
Jul 23, 2021·Journal of Forensic Sciences·Anne-Laure Pélissier-AlicotGeorges Leonetti
Jul 6, 2021·International Journal of Legal Medicine·Nicola GalanteRiccardo Zoja
Jul 27, 2021·The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology·Rosario BarrancoFrancesco Ventura

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