An atypical suicidal cut throat injury- Mechanism uncovered after injury interpretation

Abstract

Suicide is an intentional act of injuring oneself, irrespective of the outcome. However, there are other forms of suicidal behaviour existing among the people. The year 2020 is a hard time due to COVID19 pandemic as it had created difficulty to many people especially the lower economic class people to meet their daily livelihood. The result is many poor victims committing suicide. The method used for committing suicide vary from region to region. However, cutting one's own throat to end their life is very rarely performed by the victims of suicide. A careful interpretation of the injury is required by the forensic pathologist to conclude the manner of the death in such deaths. Here we report one such case, and the manner is concluded after studying the injuries tediously in summation with the police investigation. © 2022, Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine. All Rights Reserved.