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A case of suicide disguised as natural death

✍ Scribed by C. Brandt-Casadevall; T. Krompecher; C. Giroud; P. Mangin

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 354 KB
Volume: 43
Category: Article
ISSN: 1355-0306
DOI: 10.1016/s1355-0306(03)71739-0

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✦ Synopsis

A case report describing the suicide of a physician classified initially as a natural death. Faced with the vehement protest of the family of the deceased the magistrate decided to request a 'preventive' forensic autopsy. Forensic investigations revealed the cause of death as being a pentobarbital intoxication and the circumstances favoured the hypothesis of a genuine suicide. This case illustrates that the tendency of magistrates to request or not an autopsy is related to their experience or intuition.

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