Suicide By Asphyxiation Due to Helium Inhalation
dc.contributor.author | Howard, Matthew O. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hall, Martin | |
dc.contributor.author | Edwards, Jeffrey D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Vaughn, Michael G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Perron, Brian | |
dc.contributor.author | Winecker, Ruth | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-24T20:34:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-10-24T20:34:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Am J Forensic Med Pathol • Volume XX, Number X, XXX 2010 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78181> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78181 | |
dc.description.abstract | Suicide by asphyxiation using helium is the most widely promoted method of “self-deliverance” by right-to-die advocates. However, little is known about persons committing such suicides or the circumstances and manner in which they are completed. Prior reports of suicides by asphyxia- tion involving helium were reviewed and deaths determined by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to be helium-associated asphyxial suicides occurring between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2008 were included in a new case series examined in this article. The 10 asphyxial suicides involving helium identified in North Carolina tended to occur almost exclusively in non-Hispanic, white men who were relatively young (M age 41.1 11.6). In 6 of 10 cases, decedents suffered from significant psychiatric dysfunction; in 3 of these 6 cases, psychiatric disor- ders were present comorbidly with substance abuse. In none these cases were decedents suffering from terminal illness. Most persons committing suicide with helium were free of terminal illness but suffered from psychiatric and/or substance use disorders. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 421832 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.title | Suicide By Asphyxiation Due to Helium Inhalation | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 20077058 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78181/1/heliumsuicide.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Social Work, School of (SSW) |
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