2007
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcfm.2006.02.019
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Suicide by tapestry needle

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“…A case of a 46-year-old man committing suicide by inserting a tapestry needle in his heart has been reported. 36 Death scene investigation and autopsy examination revealed signs of self-harm efforts, as well as punctures on both forearms and on both sides of the neck. The deceased caused a penetrating cardiac injury which resulted in cardiac tamponade.…”
Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…A case of a 46-year-old man committing suicide by inserting a tapestry needle in his heart has been reported. 36 Death scene investigation and autopsy examination revealed signs of self-harm efforts, as well as punctures on both forearms and on both sides of the neck. The deceased caused a penetrating cardiac injury which resulted in cardiac tamponade.…”
Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other methods, such as deliberately putting oneself in harm's way with vehicles (such as trains), asphyxia by means other than hanging, motor vehicle-related suicides, jumps or falls from heights, and drownings are also frequently chosen (Gunnell and Nowers, 1997;Salib, 2005;Lin and Lu, 2006;Mohanty et al, 2007, Murray andde Leo, 2007). People can be very inventive, however, when devising strategies to take their own lives; suicides by forklift decapitation (Racette et al, 2007), railway dismemberment (DeGiorgio et al, 2006), nail guns to the head (Panourias et al, 2006) and even tapestry needles (Arslan et al, 2007) have been described, and this is by no means an exhaustive list.…”
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confidence: 99%