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Homicide Please try to start sub projects with the actual cause of death. {note from morel : I am adding a few profiles here, until we establish how we breakdown homicide death. After that, I will move those profiles into their applicable subprojects.} related projects Assassinated Asphyxiated Clergycide Eldercide Family killing family Femicide
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and as the auxiliary lethal mechanism in hangings in the event the neck does not break. Strangling does not have to be fatal; limited or interrupted strangling is practised in erotic asphyxia, in...
Femicide or feminicide is a hate crime which is broadly defined as "the intentional killing of women or girls because they are female", with definitions varying based on cultural context. In 1976, the feminist author Diana E. H. Russell first defined the term as "the killing of females by males because they are female." A spouse or partner is responsible in almost 40% of homicides involving...
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition arising when the body is deprived of oxygen, causing unconsciousness or death; suffocation; a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.===* Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which affects primarily the tissues and organs. * There are many circumstances that can induce asphyxia, all of which are characteriz...