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Introduction: Selecting unusual and uncommon means for suicide may be rooted in psychiatric disorders. Case Presentation: Herein, we report a case of suicide attempt occurring with a grinding stone as an unusual tool for suicide. After surgical repair of the injury and owing to a suspicion of psychological problems, psychiatric consultation was requested to rule out the possibility of borderline personality disorder, brief psychotic disorder, and major depression with psychotic features. Conclusions: The presence of psychotic patterns and behaviors, especially auditory hallucination and depressed mood, influence suicide attempts. The selection of uncommon tools emphasizes the need for psychiatric consultants to prevent repeated suicide attempts effectively in the same conditions.

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Crimes against a person's physical integrity are a serious and consequential felony in the Islamic criminal law. A war veteran and victim of chemical warfare deceased at the age of 69 was referred to Kahrizak Legal Medicine Center, Tehran, Iran for autopsy. According to Iranian law, deceased war veterans should undergo autopsy to have the potential damage to their organs due to chemical warfare identified, so that due compensation can be awarded to their heirs. When the chest was opened and the pericardium was removed to separate the heart from arterial bases, a sterile gauze was astonishingly found in the mediastinal cavity. According to the history provided by his children, the veteran had undergone coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) 10 years before, which had caused him physical and mental frailty and ultimately led to his death following a respiratory infection.

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