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Multiple gunshot suicide occurs when an individual commits Suicide by Firearm and succeeds in inflicting two or more Gunshot s upon himself before incapacitation ensues. It does not include suicides where the firearms are operated by other persons, such as Suicide By Cop . Multiple gunshot suicides engender controversy because of the popular misconception that it is impossible for an individual to inflict more than one gunshot upon herself or himself. Because of this many are associated with has discovered, however, that suicides by firearm involving multiple gunshots, although uncommon, are by no means rare; as many as eight percent (nearly one in every twelve) of suicides by firearm involve multiple gunshots.B. Karger and B. Brinkmann, "Multiple gunshot suicides: potential for physical activity and medico-legal aspects," ''International Journal of Legal Medicine'' 110, no. 4 (June 1997): 188-92. Suicides involving as many as six self-inflicted gunshots have been documented in the literature.T. O. Marsh, E. R. Brown, R. P. Burkhardt and J. H. Davis, "Two six-shot suicides in close geographic and temporal proximity," ''Journal of Forensic Science'' 34, no. 2 (March 1989): 491-94 Incapacitation from a is achieved when the Bullet penetrates the Telencephalon ; however, numerous bullet trajectories, including a shot between the Eyes , do not achieve this penetration.Jean-Sébastien Raul, Caroline Deck, Franck Meyer, Annie Geraut, Rémy Willinger and Bertrand Ludes, "A finite element model investigation of gunshot injury," ''International Journal of Legal Medicine'' 121, no. 2 (March 2007): 143-46. One particular case has been documented from Australia. In February 1995, a man committed suicide on parkland in Canberra , Australia . He took a Pump Action Shotgun and shot himself in the chest. The load passed through the chest without hitting a Rib , and went out the other side. He then walked fifteen meters, reloaded, leaned the shotgun against his Throat , and shot his throat and part of his Jaw . Breathing through this gunshot-induced Tracheotomy , he reloaded, walked 136 meters to a hill slope, lay down on the slope, held the gun against his Chest with his Hands and operated the Trigger with his Toes . This shot entered the Thoracic Cavity and demolished the heart, killing him.Peter B. Herdson, "Shotgun suicide with a difference," ''The Medical Journal of Australia'' 173 (2000): 604-5. REFERENCES LITERATURE
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