E-suicide note: A newer trend and its medico-legal implications in India.
Rapid advancements of information and communication technology in the form of electronic mails, mobile phones, social networking sites, etc have an increasing impact on people's day to day life. It has been observed that these readily available applications are used frequently to express suicidal intentions. There are many studies on conventional handwritten suicide notes but suicide note in electronic format is an emerging issue and an under-researched phenomena. The authors have termed it as "E-suicide note" and discuss its medico-legal implications in India with examples from their observations.
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India drchitta75@rediffmail.com.
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Behera
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
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Karthik
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
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Dogra
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
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Lalwani
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
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Millo
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
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Suicide note; electronic; medico-legal; social networking