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  • Title: [Suicide by hypothermia with intentional partial undressing].
    Author: Müller K, Gehl A, Ottens R, Püschel K.
    Journal: Arch Kriminol; 2011; 228(3-4):96-101. PubMed ID: 22039695.
    Abstract:
    Most cases of fatal hypothermia are accidental, often in connection with alcoholisation, homelessness, age-related confusedness and others. The phenomenon of paradoxical undressing may be observed. A paradoxical feeling of warmth in the advanced condition of hypothermia leads to the behaviour of undressing, partly or completely. Suicides with intentional hypothermia are rare. Fatal hypothermia often appears as a concomitant mechanism, e. g. in drug poisoning. The case report describes the fatality of a young woman dying from suicidal hypothermia. She was found partly undressed. This was part of her scheduled plan and not a consequence of paradoxical undressing.
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