title: [Plastic bag as the method in suicide and homicide].
abstract: The report describes a suicide and a homicide by suffocation in a plastic bag. Both cases were copy-cat acts. The suicide copied the method--taking medicines and pulling a plastic bag over his head from a personal model. In the homicide the perpetrator followed the example of a film sequence from the US feature film "Charade".
authors: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Freiburg.
authors: M G
authors: MG
authors: Perdekamp
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Nadjem
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Weinmann
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Pollak
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001237:Asphyxia / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005445:Flunitrazepam / Q000506:poisoning; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D006708:Homicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D010969:Plastics; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics; D005445:Flunitrazepam