title: Ingestion of safety razor blade and delayed hanging in a complex suicide.
abstract: Ingestion of a foreign body is mostly accidental in children and intentional in prisoners to achieve hospitalization; however, use of this method of suicide is rare. We report a case where the victim first ingested a safety razor blade, but failed to die and then hanged himself, but failed again and finally succumbed to the complications on the sixth day. He had also attempted suicide by inflicting multiple incised wounds on his neck four days before the safety blade ingestion, but none were fatal.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Mohit Singh
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Chauhan
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India drchitta75@rediffmail.com.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Behera
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Naagar
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sreenivas
mesh_terms: D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health / Q000592:standards; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Complex suicide; delayed hanging; foreign body; safety razor blade