Ouch

Suicide and other traumatic injury photos and drawings. Warning: Gory!

Asphyxia
• Asphyxia, discoloration of face.
• Drawing of "sleeper hold": compression of carotid artery.
• Drawing of "sleeper hold": compression of carotid artery, detail.
• Strangulation.
• Strangulation, 2.
• Use of rod to tighten a loop of rope around neck.

Blunt force trauma
• Crush injury, bus tire.
• Crush injury, tank.
• Crush injury, train wheel.
• Whole-body trauma from impact with motor vehicle.
• Whole-body trauma from impact with motor vehicle, 2..

Cuts and stabs
• Bandsaw cut, suicide.
• Cuts, self-inflicted but not suicidal intent.
• Decapitation by train wheel.
• Multiple stab wounds, suicide.
• Multiple stab wounds, homicide.
• "The Victim"
• "The Suspect"
• Throat cut, suicide.
• Throat cut, suicide, 2.
• Throat cut, suicide, 3.
• Throat cut.
• Wrist cuts, suicidal.
• Wrist cuts, suicidal, 2.
• Wrist cuts, survived.

Drowning
• Drowning. Foam at mouth and nose.
• Drowning. Appearance of body after 7 days under water.

Drugs and chemicals
• Color of hand after carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Ingestion of lye, suicide.

Electricity
• Electrical contact burns to the hand.
• High voltage burns to the arm.
• High voltage burns to the arm, 2.
• High voltage burns, full body.
• High voltage burn, amputating an arm.
• Homemade circuit-completion device used in suicidal electrocution.

Guns
• Contact gunshot wound to the head.
• Contact gunshot wound to the head, 2.
• Contact gunshot wound showing pattern of gun barrel.
• Contact gunshot wound to the head, showing unburned gunpowder.
• Distribution of sites of suicidal gunshot wounds to the head in Seattle [Eisele, 1981].
• Gunshot suicide.
• Gunshot to head, suicide.
• Gunshot to head, suicide, 2.
• Gunshot to mouth, suicide.
• Gunshot to mouth.
• Gunshot to head.
• Gunshot to head, 2.
• Gunshot to head from high-powered pistol.
• High-powered rifle bullet to the head.
• Initial surgical reconstruction following shotgun wound to the head, suicide attempt.
• Multiple-entrance gunshot wounds.
• Pinch marks on hand of suicide that cleared her boyfriend of murder indictment.
• "Blowout" shotgun wound, suicide.
• Shotgun wound to the head, suicide attempt.
• Shotgun wound to the head, suicide attempt, 2.
• Shotgun wound, entrance under chin.
• Shotgun wound, entrance under chin, 2.
• Shotgun wound to the head, homicide.
• Shotgun wound to the head, suicide.
• Shotgun wound to the head.
• Two shotgun wounds to the head, suicide.

Hanging
• Death of elderly man due to pressure on his neck from a chair.
• Hanging of Anne Green, ca. 1650, contemporary woodcut [Hughes, 1982].
• Hanging, 1.
• Hanging, 2.
• Hanging, 3.
• Hanging, 4.
• Hanging, 5.
• Hanging, 6.
• Hanging, 7.
• Hanging, 8. Note pooled blood in hands, arms, and chin.
• Hanging, 9.
• Hanging, 10. Note pooled blood in hands and arms.
• Hanging, 11.
• Knot positions commonly found in suicidal hanging [Simonsen, 1988].
• Ligature marks on neck after hanging.
• Ligature marks on back of neck after hanging; knot toward face.
• Accidental strangulation of child by toy telephone cord.
• Suicidal strangulation, despite tracheotomy hole in neck below ligature,

Hypothermia
• Death from cold.

Jumping
• Relationship between height of falls and Injury Severity Scores (ISS). [Source: Bostman, O.M., 1987] Details in "Suicide and Attempted Suicide" pp378-80.

Miscellaneous
• Autopsy.
• Autopsy, removal of skull.