Suicide of a patient with schizophrenia: A case report

Abstract

Suicide is defined as "a person's giving an end to his own life due to emotional, psychological, or social effects". There are many reasons leading a person to suicide. It is reported that the suicide risk in those with psychiatric illness increases 3-12 times more than those without psychiatric illness. Causing maximum loss of ability and being the most embarrassing among the mental illnesses, schizophrenia is one of the illnesses with the highest suicide risk. Death cases resulting from suicide are always held as forensic deaths; therefore need judicial inquiry and forensic autopsy. Death resulting from suicide is common in schizophrenic patients; but in this study, a suicide method which we have not encountered in literature, that is, the suicide method of a male adult with chronic schizophrenia who committed suicide by inserting a teaspoon into his respiratory tract is found interesting and presented.