Hanging on like Death

Homicide-suicide (dyadic death): a case study of double hanging.

Murder-suicide, homicide-suicide, and dyadic death all refer to an incident where a homicide is committed followed by the perpetrator's suicide almost immediately or soon after the homicide. Homicide-suicides are relatively uncommon and vary from region to region. In the selected literature that we reviewed, shooting was the common method of killing and suicide, and only 3 cases of homicidal ha...

[Death by hanging and television (apropos of 2 cases)].

A Case of Suicidal Hanging—Death after Nine Days

years, suffering from melancholia for the last one month, living with her father lately, for three days removed to the husband's place. On the morning of the 9th February 1903 she was found hanging from the branch of a tree near the house by the mother-in-law, whose screams drew the attention of a male member of the house, who came up quickly and cut the rope and brought down the body. From the...

Chromatin: Hanging on to histones

The core histones have long been known to have an important role in the packaging of DNA into nucleosomes. Today, nucleosome assembly is recognized as an integral component of both transcriptional activation and repression [1]. Transcriptional control is mediated through the assembly of extensive nucleoprotein structures containing both conventional transcription factors and architectural facto...

Endangered Norwegian livestock hanging on