Erschienen in:
16.06.2021 | Letter to the Editor
Clandestine mummified remains
verfasst von:
Vladimir Živković, Danica Cvetković, Irina Damjanjuk, Slobodan Nikolić
Erschienen in:
Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology
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Ausgabe 4/2021
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Excerpt
People inclined to preserve bodies of dead relatives, as reactions to grief and acts of denial, show traits of abnormal personality or psychosis and social isolation. They probably had a pathological relationship with the deceased [
1]. However, the subjects who intentionally keep the bodies of their loved ones for financial profit are not socially isolated, their past medical history shows no evidence of a psychotic breakdown, and they try to hide the bodies [
2]. Sometimes the reasons to preserve or abandon bodies of deceased relatives are more complex. …