NCJ Number
127655
Journal
Medicine, Science, and the Law Volume: 30 Issue: 3 Dated: (July 1990) Pages: 219-220
Date Published
1990
Length
2 pages
Annotation
This article discusses a case of suicide in Sri Lanka, where the suicide rate is very high, in which a laborer with the Electricity Board killed himself by electrocution.
Abstract
Suicide by electrocution is very rare even on a worldwide basis. In this case, the subject was suffering from a depressive illness and selected a method of death with which he was very familiar. Surprisingly, few of the autopsy findings were consistent with ventricular fibrilla, the most common cause of death from electrocution. 1 figure and 5 references (Author abstract modified)