A Case Report of Complex Suicide in a Pregnant Female

Abstract

Planned complex suicide constitutes a very rare mode of suicide. They are highly likely to be mistaken for murder. We report a case of a 22-year-old female that was brought dead to RIMS mortuary after being reported dead at her home, An Autopsy conducted showed a ligature mark which was suggestive of hanging. Greenish-colored fluid in the stomach with wall congestion at places with erosions and bleeding suggestive of Copper Sulphate poisoning (paint ingestion). An in-utero dead fetus was also found when the enlarged uterus was thoroughly examined. Suicides and suicide attempts are a big public health problem that have progressed in the last two decades and are ever increasing since then. Planned complex suicides, therefore indicate the mental dropout of individuals and social failure. Role of depression hovering around people nowadays cannot be denied. When people die committing such suicide, surviving family is left with shock, anger, grief, symptoms of depression and anxiety and may even experience thoughts of suicide themselves.