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Complex Autoerotic Death with Full Body Wrapping in a Plastic Body Bag
Author(s) -
Schellenberg Morgan,
Racette Stéphanie,
Sauvageau Anny
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of forensic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1556-4029
pISSN - 0022-1198
DOI - 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00496.x
Subject(s) - asphyxia , medicine , plastic bag , accidental , poison control , foreign body , surgery , medical emergency , anesthesia , materials science , physics , acoustics , composite material
Autoerotic deaths are normally classified as accidental deaths occurring during individual, and usually solitary, sexual activity in which a device, apparatus, or prop used to enhance sexual stimulation of the deceased somehow causes unintended death. The most common methods of autoerotic practices are asphyxia by hanging, ligature, plastic bag, chemical substances, or a mixture of these. However, atypical methods such as overdressing/body wrapping have also been reported. In fact, overdressing/body wrapping is so rare that it is implicated in only 1.5% of published cases. Although plastic bags are often implicated in autoerotic deaths, there has been only one previous case that involved a plastic covering the victim’s body from head to toe. We here report the case of a 34‐year‐old man who died due to asphyxia, secondary to body wrapping in the largest and most complex plastic bag ever involved in a published case of autoerotic death.