A retrospective five-year autopsy based study of suicide in Punjab province of Pakistan

This retrospective review of suicide autopsy cases in five districts of the Pakistan Punjab showed that poisoning was the most common means of suicide, particularly with paraphenylenediamine hair dye. There is need for systematic collection of such data from all districts across Pakistan, which can lead to the development of a national suicide registry. This will allow official reporting of suicide deaths on a national level to help guide development and monitoring of an effective suicide prevention strategy.