Suicide attempted by self-immolation.
The authors found that 14 individuals who had attempted suicide by self-immolation all had psychiatric illness (most were psychotic), and many had religious preoccupations. There was a reversal of the usual male to female ratios for burn injury and for successful suicide--all 5 completed suicides were women. Although self-immolation as social protest was widely publicized during the years surveyed, the authors note that these individuals all attempted suicide for personal and irrational rather than morally idealistic reasons.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder; D002056:Burns; D003863:Depression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D001523:Mental Disorders; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders; D011604:Psychoses, Alcoholic; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid; D012737:Sex Factors; D013405:Suicide