Death in mysterious circumstances

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An Extraordinary death (short AGT , occasionally AGT ) is a fatality , in the pathological inquest is recognized as unnatural death or the unnatural cause of death can not be excluded with certainty, at least.

The term is mainly used in Switzerland. The definition goes back to the publication The extraordinary death of the Swiss forensic doctor and university lecturer Fritz Schwarz in 1970.

Examples of extraordinary deaths are:

An agT is not necessarily to be equated with an unnatural death. Natural death under exceptional circumstances can also be counted as agT.

In addition, as several publications show, there are very rare, strange, original and bizarre types of death.

Situations that increase the suspicion of an agT include:

  • Rotting corpses , burnt bodies , water bodies
  • Minor Deaths
  • Environment such as drug or prostitution milieu, nursing homes, police custody
  • Medical treatment deaths
  • Deaths of rich or famous people
  • Deaths outdoors, on public property, in traffic
  • Unknown corpses

Unusual deaths must be reported immediately to the police or the public prosecutor by the examining doctor . The details are cantonal regulated, for example in a Bestattungsgesetz (Example Canton Basel-Stadt ) or in health law (example canton Basel Country ).

literature

  • Fritz Schwarz: The extraordinary death. Enke, Stuttgart 1970.
  • Nikolaus Jungwirth, Gerhard Kromschröder: Original deaths. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-8218-1807-7 .
  • Wendy Northcutt: New Darwin Awards for the Weirdest Ways to Die. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-09363-9 .
  • Katja Doubek: Lexicon of strange types of death. Strange varieties and forms of death from A for rampage to Z for potassium cyanide. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-8218-1521-3 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon of Forensic Medicine ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) of the University of Bern .
  2. ^ Entry on Extraordinary Death in Flexikon , a wiki from DocCheck , accessed on February 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ Information from forensic medicine Basel-Stadt ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Information from the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital, accessed on February 13, 2014.