Suizid durch ein ungewöhnliches Hiebinstrument

Suicidal Decapitation by Guillotine: Case Report and Review of the Literature

“…In the analyzed case, the wounding cutting weapon—a guillotine blade, struck the neck with very great force and intensity resulting in a complete interruption of the neck tissues and organs, including the cervical spine and spinal cord. In the medico‐legal literature, only three similar cases of suicide by a functional self‐constructed guillotine have been described at present (32–34). In two cases, the suicidal instrument was a functional model of a self‐constructed guillotine (32,33).…”

“…In two cases, the suicidal instrument was a functional model of a self‐constructed guillotine (32,33). The latter was a case of a portable cutting device that served as a small “portable” guillotine (34). …”

“…The third case of decapitation by guillotine was described in 2009 by Šídlo et al. (34) who analyzed a case of an almost complete decapitation of a 56‐year‐old man who had constructed a small portable guillotine in his house. The suicide motive in this case was financial problems.…”

“…This study reports the analysis of a suicide committed by a 31‐year‐old man with a self‐fabricated cutting tool strongly resembling the original guillotine. In medico‐legal literature, there have been only three similar cases of suicide by a guillotine described (one case of complete decapitation, two cases of incomplete decapitation; [32–34]).…”

Suicide with self-contrived guillotine

“…Die Größe dieser Gruppe wird nur noch durch die der 45 bis 65 Jahre alten Männer übertroffen [20]. In den letzten Jahrzehnten erschienen nur wenige Publikationen zu Suizidfällen mithilfe einer Guillotine oder guillotineähnlichen Konstruktionen, so beispielsweise von Nowak u. Seidl [8], Shorrock [18] sowie Šidlo et al [19]. Darüber hinaus sind zahlreiche andere Arten der suizidalen Dekapitation beschrieben; häu-fig unter diesen sind insbesondere Dekapitationen im Zusammenhang mit Zugü-berfahrungen [2,4,7,29] und verschiedenen Erhängungsvorgängen [5,9,10,13,15,22,24].…”