Train-related suicidal decapitation

Woolery, Samantha; Prahlow, Joseph A.

doi:10.1007/s12024-021-00396-8

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“…However, the consequence of an incident between a person and a train always has terrible consequences: suicide by train is a common case worldwide: victims place their bodies across the railroad tracks, leap in front of a moving train, or stand in front of it in order to be hit by it. (Woolery, 2021;Sahu, 2021;Preuss, 2020).…”

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Railway Safety Analysis: Trends and Challenges

Nardo,

Amato,

Dubbioso

et al. 2023

Proceeding of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference

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Rail transport has been changing the mobility of people. The Railway's development has pointed the focus on the safety management of trains and infrastructure, particularly related to passengers. This paper focuses on the methods adopted to guarantee high safety in railways; for this reason, it was interesting to present a literature analysis about this topic. The authors short-listed 48 articles for indepth analysis. Bibliometric research and a thorough literature assessment were conducted to evaluate the safety management in the Railway area. Today, the attention of experts and railway managers is very high on high-speed railways because of their high-risk levels. For this reason, many advanced technologies have been developing all over the World, thanks to the new artificial intelligence tools and machine learning, to guarantee a constantly high degree of safety. Especially the stations and specifically, the platform zones, are crucial hotspots for railway accidents, particularly suicide events. Some prevention techniques showed an increment in safety quality and made Railway the safest transport infrastructure. So, a resilient model applied to safety railways could improve even more substantial safety degree.

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Railway Safety Analysis: Trends and Challenges

Nardo,

Amato,

Dubbioso

et al. 2023

Proceeding of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference

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Complete decapitation by a self-constructed guillotine

Görg,

Schwarz,

Wunder

et al. 2023

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ZusammenfassungDekapitationen sind im rechtsmedizinischen Sektionsgut nur selten vorzufinden; die jeweilige Fallbeurteilung als Tötungsdelikt, Suizid oder Unfall in Abgrenzung zu einer postmortalen Entstehung kann insbesondere bei komplexeren Auffindesituationen erschwert sein. Vorgestellt wird ein seltener Fall einer vollständigen Abtrennung des Kopfes durch eine selbstkonstruierte Guillotine, der sich in der Zusammenschau der computertomographischen und autoptischen Befunde, beispielsweise Vitalitätszeichen, sowie der Auffindesituation mit einer elaborierten suizidalen Handlung in Einklang bringen ließ.

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Suicide by Ethyl Methacrylate Ingestion

Prahlow,

Wilson,

Gruszecki

2024

Am J Forensic Med Pathol

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This case report characterizes a unique way in which suicide was accomplished through ingestion of chemicals typically used to create acrylic fingernails that resulted in death. Ethyl methacrylate and acrylic powder are commonly combined to form acrylic nails in nail salons. The process of applying acrylic nails utilizes each substance by mixing both before it typically solidifies within seconds of combining the two compounds. Ingestion of these compounds has not been previously described within the medical literature. The decedent was a nail technician at a local salon. He was found unresponsive in his yard which led to a 911 call. At the scene, a mostly empty 16-oz bottle of ethyl methacrylate, a chemical used at the salon where he worked, was found. At autopsy, the decedent's body had a strong chemical odor consistent with odors present at nail salons. Significant gastrointestinal tract damage was seen including discoloration within the esophagus, and the stomach contained a molded, hardened nail compound. The cause of death was ruled as complications of nail acrylic powder and liquid ethyl methacrylate ingestion. This case shows the unusual findings seen at autopsy from a decedent who committed suicide by ingestion of ethyl methacrylate with acrylic powder.

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Train-related suicidal decapitation

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Railway Safety Analysis: Trends and Challenges

Railway Safety Analysis: Trends and Challenges

Complete decapitation by a self-constructed guillotine

Suicide by Ethyl Methacrylate Ingestion

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