Suicidal hanging in Istanbul, Turkey: 1979–2012 Autopsy results

Suicidal Hanging in Eskisehir, Turkey: 25 Year Analysis

“…In a study of a 33-year period that covered 1979-2012 in Istanbul, 53.1% of the hanging cases were between 19-41 [17]. In the study conducted by Kurtuluş et al, the mean age of the hanging cases was reported to be 40.9 [35].…”

“…However, it has been generally reported in studies conducted on hanging that the rope has been used most frequently [3,10,17,22,39,40]. In the study conducted by Ambade et al, rope has been used in hanging cases by the ratio of 67.7% [39].…”

“…In the studies conducted on suicide, it was reported that men died more frequently due to suicide [6,8,9,[32][33][34][35]. In the studies conducted in parallel to it, victims were reported to be males more frequently [16,17,22,36,37]. In a study conducted on hanging in Saudi Arabia, 86.46% of the cases were reported to be male [18].…”

“…It has been reported that about 2000 suicide deaths due to hanging occurs per year in England [15]. It has been reported in the studies conducted all over the world that the incidence of hanging is gradually increasing [3,[16][17][18][19][20][21]. Hanging is thought to be the most commonly used suicide method as hanging material can be easily found and the hanging action can be performed almost everywhere [1,9,11,22].…”

“…Neck region should be examined in detail during autopsy. Hemorrhage and ecchymoses in soft tissues under neck skin, ecchymotic fractures in hyoid bone and troit cartilage support that hanging has been performed while the person is alive [2,3,16,17,[22][23][24][25][26]. Whether the person was affected by a substance or alcohol at a level that could make him/her ineffective before death should be investigated by performing toxicological examination [2,[27][28][29].…”