Suicide by Hanging - What Is the Difference?

The doctor who did it said that the ligature mark on the neck and the burst blood vessels on the face were difficult to square with the typical hanging. Tony Latissier points out that there was no suspension of the body from a noose with the feet off the floor as is the usual method when people commit suicide by hanging. Hess had removed his outer garments, looped the cord around his neck, and slumped to the floor with his legs splayed out in front of him. So he was probably trying to push himself downward to apply force to his neck,. In his struggles to do that, blood vessels in his 93-year-old face may have burst. The efforts to revive