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A suicide case by hanging without fixing the end of the rope
Daisuke Miyamori1, Hiroki Kondou1, Hiroaki Ichioka1
1Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 602-8566, Japan.
Abstract:
Hanging is a method of death in which one end of a cord is tied around the neck and the other end is tied to an unmovable object and hung down, compressing the neck with weight. We have identified a rare case in which death was accomplished without tying one end of the rope. The individual was successfully hanged by the frictional force between the upward rope and the downward rope. The police concluded the case as a suicide.
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