title: [Suicide by hypothermia with intentional partial undressing].
abstract: Most cases of fatal hypothermia are accidental, often in connection with alcoholisation, homelessness, age-related confusedness and others. The phenomenon of paradoxical undressing may be observed. A paradoxical feeling of warmth in the advanced condition of hypothermia leads to the behaviour of undressing, partly or completely. Suicides with intentional hypothermia are rare. Fatal hypothermia often appears as a concomitant mechanism, e. g. in drug poisoning. The case report describes the fatality of a young woman dying from suicidal hypothermia. She was found partly undressed. This was part of her scheduled plan and not a consequence of paradoxical undressing.
authors: Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Universität Hamburg.
authors: Katja
authors: K
authors: Müller
authors: Axel
authors: A
authors: Gehl
authors: Reinhold
authors: R
authors: Ottens
authors: Klaus
authors: K
authors: Püschel
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D003020:Clothing; D004155:Diphenhydramine / Q000506:poisoning; D062787:Drug Overdose / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000506:poisoning; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000473:pathology*; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives; D004155:Diphenhydramine