Suicides are on the rise, people don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, the coroner says

Exact data on how many people in the country reached life last year compared to the previous year are not available. The daily did not obtain them from the Police of the Czech Republic or the Ministry of Health. According to Petr Kučera from the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, the exact data will be known in the middle of the year at the earliest. According to Tuček, however, the increasing number of suicides is clear.

“We record about a third increase. It started last year and continues this year. The situation is not good, people have problems, they do not have a job, they do not have the resources. They do not see the light at the end of the tunnel, “stated Tuček, whose coroners operate in the Hradec Králové, South Bohemian, Plzeň, Central Bohemian, Zlín, Ústí nad Labem and Moravian-Silesian regions.

The most common way of leaving life in the Czech Republic is hanging. “It’s usually on a tree, on a beam, but you can also hang it on the door handle or on the radiator faucet, when people kneel or lie down. Sometimes the person in question tries to overcome the instinct of self-preservation, so we already had several deceased people who had tied their hands before and only then hanged themselves, “Tuček recalled. He added that another common method of suicide is a collision with a train or a high jump.

The woman first cleans up and then goes to die

“If I omit patient jumps in hospitals, the castle’s Cloak Bridge in Český Krumlov in southern Bohemia or the Amerika quarry in Central Bohemia are popular. We go there quite often, “said the coroner. His colleagues also encounter self-damage with a knife or something similar, shooting or poisoning. “For drug poisoning, there is a huge difference between the approach of men and women. When the guy spends, he squeezes ten blisters of medicine, swallows them, and drinks a bottle of rum. He leaves it all on the table, lies down on the couch and goes to die. When a woman spends, she also swallows medicines and drinks them with alcohol. But then he gets up, throws the blisters into the basket, washes the glass, cleans up after himself and only then goes to die, “described the executive of 1. Koronerská.

Some suicides are very harsh and even experienced practitioners will be surprised. For all of them, Tuček selected two cases from the Pilsen region in recent years. In the first case, a pool employee opened a bottle of chlorine to himself, which is a very ugly and painful death. In the second, the girl stabbed herself. At first it looked like murder, but then it turned out that she planted the wounds in her chest herself.

Even experienced coroners, like police officers, paramedics and firefighters, have a hard time coping with cases where children or adolescents commit suicide. “It simply came to our notice then. When a fourteen-year-old girl hangs herself on a dog leash because of her unhappy love, it’s terrible. Although we have seen a lot of things about a child, it is also a shock to us. It crushes us, it crushes the police, everyone, “Tuček concluded.

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