Suicide Note
Definition
A written or recorded communication left by the deceased explaining or referring to the act. Present in a minority of Indian suicides; absence is not evidence of homicide.
Related terms
- Collateral Source
- Any non-deceased source feeding the reconstruction: family, treating clinician, employer, financial records, diary, digital footprint.
- Equivocal Death
- A death in which the cause is established but the manner is unclear. The category that psychological autopsy was originally designed to...
- Manner of Death
- The circumstantial classification of a death using the NAME five-category scheme (natural, accident, suicide, homicide, undetermined), or the jurisdiction-specific equivalent, recorded separately...
- NIMHANS Protocol
- The structured psychological-autopsy interview and source-review framework developed at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru. The Indian de-facto standard.
- Psychological Autopsy
- A retrospective investigation of a deceased person's psychological state in the period before death, used to help differentiate suicide, homicide, accident and...
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- Psychological Autopsy: Suicide vs Homicide DifferentiationA written or recorded communication left by the deceased explaining or referring to the act. Present in a minority of Indian suicides; absence is not evidence...