The Authors choose the cases of suicides in the cemetery performed in a period of 24 years in Milan. They highlight the general aspects, together with the forensic pathology and the psychopathological data. In Milan area, the selected cases were 4. The selected sample validates that cemetery suicide are rare and victims present three common features: a depressive mental disorder, the male sex and the burial of a beloved person in the cemetery of the suicide. These observations could enrich the knowledge of epidemiological analysis of such modality of suicide.

Boracchi, M., Clerici, C., Gentile, G., Maciocco, F., Marchesi, M., Muccino, E., et al. (2017). Unusual Suicide Settings: A Forensic-Pathological Analysis Four Cases of Suicide in Cemetery. FORENSIC RESEARCH & CRIMINOLOGY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 4(4) [10.15406/frcij.2017.04.00119].

Unusual Suicide Settings: A Forensic-Pathological Analysis Four Cases of Suicide in Cemetery

Marchesi, M;PRUNAS, ANTONIO;
2017

Abstract

The Authors choose the cases of suicides in the cemetery performed in a period of 24 years in Milan. They highlight the general aspects, together with the forensic pathology and the psychopathological data. In Milan area, the selected cases were 4. The selected sample validates that cemetery suicide are rare and victims present three common features: a depressive mental disorder, the male sex and the burial of a beloved person in the cemetery of the suicide. These observations could enrich the knowledge of epidemiological analysis of such modality of suicide.
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Suicide; Cemetery; Forensic pathology
English
2017
4
4
00119
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Boracchi, M., Clerici, C., Gentile, G., Maciocco, F., Marchesi, M., Muccino, E., et al. (2017). Unusual Suicide Settings: A Forensic-Pathological Analysis Four Cases of Suicide in Cemetery. FORENSIC RESEARCH & CRIMINOLOGY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 4(4) [10.15406/frcij.2017.04.00119].
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