Suicide by Fire
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medicine, Science and the Law
- Vol. 16 (3) , 177-179
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002580247601600306
Abstract
The case is reported of a young man working as an assistant librarian who had been in hospital for 2 months and managed to leave hospital to set himself on fire by throwing paraffin over himself and setting it alight.Keywords
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