MsAnais
Verified Clinical Psychologist (AU)
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I think we could say with some certainty that the wheelbarrow wasn't treated as evidence and tested. I was also surprised to read that the doctor who performed the autopsy simply concluded that the wounds were consistent with suicide. I seriously doubt he would have ever examined a suicide victim with a wound caused by a large knife jammed into a window frame where the victim had propelled themselves onto the knife with the force and/or speed required to kill themselves. It's a mighty strange conclusion to reach imo.
It's such a strange and grotesque way to suggest this young woman would have taken her own life. Why that way? Why outside the house in broad daylight, on a board, wrapped in plastic with a makeshift hood on her head?
Why dressed in exercise gear and a sun hat!! Good grief.
Exactly! It just doesn't fit with all the data on female suicide. It's a very violent, brutal way to die - much more masculine IMO. But even then, how many males kill themselves like that? Even when men do it violently, they choose a method that's far more likely to have success eg. shooting self in mouth, jumping from cliff, crashing car into tree.
Running up and impaling yourself on a knife seems incredibly risky and uncertain to me - the person can't be sure they wouldn't just injure themselves. And one thing I've learned from working with suicidal people, is that when they really want to do it, they choose a method that's about as definite as you can get. They don't want to keep living with a new disability on top of everything.