Ritual suicide of a Japanese girl in the Slovak Republic.
The body of a young Japanese woman was found buried in the mass of snow in February 2006 near the town of Liptovsky Mikulas in the Slovak Republic. Hypothermia was declared as the cause of her death, the body of the deceased was deeply frozen. The autopsy and police investigation classified her death as a suicide, having some features of an Eastern Asian suicidal ritual. The case shows that the era of world globalization and migration of people bring together also the curious cases of human tragedies. Thus the forensic expert of nowadays must expect that s/he might be faced with cases of death unseen before.
Straka
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Department of Forensic Medicine, Health Care Surveillance Authority, Kollarova, 03601 Martin, Slovakia. lubomir.straka@udzs.sk, macko@mfn.sk
Novomesky
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Krajcovic
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Macko
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