Racette Stéphanie, Sauvageau Anny
Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale, Edifice Wilfrid-Derome, 1701, Parthenais street, 12th floor, Montreal, QBC, Canada, H2K 3S7.
J Forensic Sci. 2007 Mar;52(2):449-52. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00387.x.
The notion of planned and unplanned complex suicides first appeared in 1974 by Marcinkowski and, since then, no systematic study of complex suicides has been published in the English forensic literature. Here, the authors present a 5-year retrospective study of complex suicides. Nineteen complex suicides were reviewed: five unplanned and 14 planned, including the first case of an unplanned complex suicide in a woman. All cases were analyzed in terms of gender, age, methods of suicide, the presence of a suicide note, and past suicide attempts, and statistically compared with a 50-case sample of simple suicides. A further comparison was established with compiled data from the literature. Similarities were revealed regarding incidence of complex suicides, male gender predominance, and types of methods used. In contrast, results showed a higher average age for planned complex suicide victims. Finally, the authors discuss the application of the complex suicide definition.
有计划和无计划的复杂自杀概念最早于1974年由马尔钦科夫斯基提出，从那时起，英文法医文献中尚未发表过关于复杂自杀的系统性研究。在此，作者呈现了一项关于复杂自杀的5年回顾性研究。回顾了19例复杂自杀案例：5例无计划的和14例有计划的，包括首例女性无计划复杂自杀案例。所有案例均从性别、年龄、自杀方法、遗书的有无以及既往自杀未遂情况进行分析，并与50例简单自杀案例样本进行统计学比较。还与文献汇编数据进行了进一步比较。揭示了复杂自杀发生率、男性占主导地位以及所用方法类型方面的相似之处。相比之下，结果显示有计划复杂自杀受害者的平均年龄更高。最后，作者讨论了复杂自杀定义的应用。
