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Abstract. Given that most fatal hangings are suicidal and occur in locations that have been selected to conceal this activity (thus maximizing the chances of a lethal outcome), there has been very little corroboration of the speed with which unconsciousness and death may occur.
- Three leading suicide methods in the United States, 2017–2019 ...
Firearms and hanging/suffocation as suicide methods, with...
- Neurological Outcomes Following Suicidal Hanging: A ...
Injury to the cervical spine is distinctly rare in suicidal...
- Hangings: Lessons Learned from the Coroner's Office - PubMed
Home was the most frequent hanging setting (n = 1,028, 73%)...
- Three leading suicide methods in the United States, 2017–2019 ...
Hanging is the most frequently used method of suicide in the UK and has high case fatality (>70%). To explore factors influencing the decision to use hanging. Semi-structured qualitative interviews with 12 men and 10 women who had survived a near-fatal suicide attempt. Eight respondents had attempted hanging.
More people start an attempt and abort it than carry it through; therefore, methods that can be interrupted without harm mid-attempt — such as overdose, cutting, CO poisoning, and hanging/suffocation — offer a window of opportunity for rescue or change of heart that guns and jumps do not.
Hanging is a frequent suicide method, but developing measures to prevent suicide by this method is particularly challenging. The aim of this study is to gain new knowledge that would enable the design of effective of measures that would help prevent suicide by hanging.
