Suicidal cut throat. The wounds are horizontal, rather than the more common sloping-down from left to right in a right- handed person. The numerous ‘tentative cuts’ are the hallmark of self-infliction, though there are rare exceptions. The larynx has been entered and death was due to aspiration of blood into the air passages. The great vessels in the neck were undamaged.
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