Table 1 Characteristics of complex suicide cases
From: Complex suicides: 21 cases and a review of the literature
Case No | Gender | Age | Incident location | Suicide note | Past suicide attempt | Psychiatric disease | Suicide motive | Method of suicide | Cause of death | Planned - unplanned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | M | 33 | Car | Yes | No | No | Financial | Ingested corrosive substance + ingested cyanide | Ingested corrosive substance + ingested cyanide | Planned |
2 | M | 52 | House-window | No | No | No | Familial problems | Ingested corrosive substance + jumping from height | Multiple organ injuries | Planned |
3 | M | 61 | House-room | No | No | Depression | Physical illness | Wrist cutting – drug overdose | Drug overdose | Unplanned |
4 | M | 19 | House-balcony | No | No | Psychosis | Psychiatric | Drug overdose + jumping from height | Multiple organ injuries | Unplanned |
5 | M | 29 | House-room | Yes | No | No | Financial | Wrist cutting – hanging | Hanging | Unplanned |
6 | M | 25 | House-room | Yes | No | Depression | Psychiatric | Drug overdose + stabbing the chest + hanging | Hanging | Planned |
7 | M | 39 | House-balcony | No | No | No | Familial problems | Wrist cutting, stabbing the abdominal + jumping from height | Multiple organ injuries | Unplanned |
8 | M | 30 | House-room | No | No | No | About lawsuit | Ethylchloride inhalation + plastic bag suffocation | Ethylchloride inhalation + plastic bag suffocation | Planned |
9 | M | 76 | House-balcony | No | Yes | Depression | Psychiatric | Drug overdose + jumping from height | Multiple organ injuries | Unplanned |
10 | M | 34 | Sea | No | No | Psychosis | Psychiatric | Drug overdose + drowning | Drowning | Planned |
11 | M | 24 | House-balcony | No | No | Psychosis | Psychiatric | Drug overdose + wrist cutting + jumping from height | Multiple organ injuries | Unplanned |
12 | M | 70 | House-balcony | No | Yes | Depression | Physical illness | Stabbing the popliteal fossa + jumping from height | Multiple organ injuries | Unplanned |
13 | M | 53 | House-kitchen | Yes | No | Psychosis | Psychiatric | Drug overdose + hanging | Hanging | Planned |
14 | F | 36 | Sea | No | Yes | Depression | Psychiatric | Drug overdose + drowning | Drowning | Planned |
15 | M | 22 | House-room | No | No | Anxiety disorder | Psychiatric | Wrist cutting + drug overdose | Drug overdose | Unplanned |
16 | M | 34 | House-balcony | No | Yes | Schizophrenia | Psychiatric | Stabbing the chest + jumping from height | Multiple organ injuries | Unplanned |
17 | M | 41 | House-balcony | No | No | Psychosis | Psychiatric | Hanging + jumping from height | Multiple organ injuries | Planned |
18 | M | 34 | House-kitchen | Yes | No | No | Financial | Drug overdose + butane inhalation | Drug overdose + butane inhalation | Planned |
19 | F | 70 | House-balcony | No | No | Depression | Psychiatric | Ingested insecticide + jumping from height | Multiple organ injuries | Unplanned |
20 | F | 70 | House-kitchen | No | No | Depression | Psychiatric | Drug overdose + hanging | Hanging | Planned |
21 | F | 41 | House - room | Yes | Yes | Depression | Psychiatric | Drug overdose + hanging | Hanging | Planned |