The role of primary forensic data in the context of statistical reporting on suicidal mortality

The established dynamics of the progressive increase in hangings encoded as injuries with uncertain intentions (IUI), the uniformity of samples of hangings-suicides and hangings-IUI with a doubtful probability of any other kind of death by hanging, except suicide, allow us to speak about the underestimation of the suicide rate. The reason for this can be considered the established procedure for registering the type of death in primary forensic medical documentation, according to which, in the absence of information about the type of death from law enforcement agencies, the expert is forced to classify these cases into a group of injuries with uncertain intentions, namely, this information is the basis for the formation of statistical reporting on suicidal mortality.