“…Most of the cases are suicidal, except for a few accidental cases [1]. It is a painless suicide method with immediate death due to reflex vagal inhibition, anoxia, or cerebral ischemia [1,2,3,5]. Though "once launched upon suicide by hanging, there is no retreat", a few patients survive and reach the hospital if promptly rescued, known as 'near-hanging' [1,3,4,5].…”