title: Secondary combined suicide pact.
abstract: This article reports a combined suicide pact, where in a young couple; a 26 year old male and a 20 year old female committed suicide by using two methods. The couple had resorted to hanging and self-immolation to prevent failure of single method alone. In secondary combined suicides, several other methods of suicide are tried after the first method chosen has failed. It is primary combined suicide only when two or more methods are used simultaneously. Both types of combined suicide by one individual is well reported in the literature whereas the same by two persons together is rare. In this report, the deceased were disappointed lovers, poor and the family members were against their marriage. The investigation of scene, methods employed to commit suicide, autopsy findings and the interview with their relatives altogether suggested that it was a secondary combined suicide pact.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, MSRIT Post, MSR Nagar, Bangalore 560054, Karnataka, India. Electronic address: veejay02@gmail.com.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Jayanth
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, MSRIT Post, MSR Nagar, Bangalore 560054, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Y P
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Girish Chandra
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, MSRIT Post, MSR Nagar, Bangalore 560054, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Basappa S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Hugar
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, MSRIT Post, MSR Nagar, Bangalore 560054, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Sunilkumar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kainoor
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001237:Asphyxia; D002056:Burns; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013405:Suicide
keywords: Burns; Combined; Hanging; Methods; Secondary; Suicide