Lone Man Found Six Days After Committing Suicide by Hanging

Lone Man Found Six Days After Committing Suicide by Hanging

On Friday, April 20, 2012 body of 63 year old Cicero Rafael was discovered in his isolated house in the municipality of Solidão, state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Six day prior, Cicero Rafael committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house.

Former farmer, Cicero Rafael lived alone having separated from his wife with whom he had 6 children. People from the area said that lately he showed signs of depression (whatever that means).

The locality in which the old man resided is sparsely inhabited and without paved roads so access is limited. That is why there was a few days delay between his suicide and the day he was found.

It’s ironic that the name of the municipality where he resided (and took his life) which in Brazilian Portugues reads as Solidão means solitude. Poor man reached an old age and being completely abandoned, he must have felt lonesome and couldn’t handle it anymore.

Thanks guys for not bitching at my stoned ass yesterday for posting a video of a squirrel. Though we’d call it a chipmunk in my neck of the woods, squirrels are way smaller. I thought everybody was gonna bitch at me that there was no gore in the video. It was just a brief derailment, we’re back to our regular programming now. I think 😉

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111 thoughts on “Lone Man Found Six Days After Committing Suicide by Hanging”

    2. The squirrel video was great (where I’m from we call it a Red Squirrel)…but it would have been better if the tree rat would have went nuts and killed the entire family; maybe next time.

  7. yeah, now THESE photos reminds Tulio of his years ‘clerking’ (that’s how you call being exploited by the judiciary in the US right?) for one of banana reps.’s criminal judges; those gory “N.N s/ muerte dudosa” (unknown cause death) of freaky loners who were found two weeks after dying in their homes totally juiced out and with the characteristical “roasted-pig-with-apple-in-mouth” rolled tongue….sometimes the forense (medical examiner) would not even try to open the guy (you just don’t get used to the odour of putrid gas that comes out of one of these roasties, even if you are a veteran M.E)….anyway, the “pool de visceras” (that’s the pat? de foie they do with mixed pieces of the guy’s organs to test to find traces of drugs and/or poison) tends to be inaccurate in such advanced state of decomposition

  9. Well he has certainly started the process known as Putrefraction. For those interested , a little FYI – Putrefraction begins after about 2 days. The process is faster in damp climates / places or when the body is exposed to air. Decay is about eight times faster in the air than underground. Too cold or too hot and the process won’t happen. In very hot temperatures the body will dry out and mummify instead. People with a lot of fat will decay faster. People who died of bacterial disease will also decay faster. However, some poisons preserve the body. Many factors play into things as you can see.

    As a general rule this is how it works: 2-3 days: green staining begins on the right side of the abdomen. Body begins to swell. 3-4 days: staining spreads. Veins go “marbled” – a browny black discoloration 5-6 days: abdomen swells with gas. Skin blisters 2 weeks: abdomen very tight and swollen. 3 weeks: tissue softens. Organs and cavities bursting. Nails fall off. 4 weeks: soft tissues begin to liquefy. Face becoming unrecognisable. 4-6 months: formation of adipocere, if in damp place. This is when the fat goes all hard and waxy.

    Also many times when you see the purple discoloration on a body, this is known as Livor mortis, which is the settling of blood (It’s is also called Hypostasis). When the heart stops, the blood stops circulating and gravity makes it settle. This makes the areas where the blood has settled turn dark blue or purple.This starts happening immediately and is visible with a couple of hours. At this point skin is bluish and blotchy. After five or six hours the blotches have joined up but the skin still goes white when pressed. After ten to twelve hours the blue colour remains even when pressed.

    The lividity doesn’t show where the body is in contact with something. This a body lying on its back will show lividity in the small of its back, its neck etc but not is parts of the body directly touching the ground. This a very useful when determining if a body has been moved after death.The discolouration looks like a bruise, but experts can easily tell them apart. With some poisons the discoloration is different. Carbon Monoxide, for example, turns the skin cherry pink. Oh well enough medical mumbo jumbo for now.

      1. Med Ex Thank You (again) for your insights, What you know, is what you shere, might not seem like a big deal, but it’s what you are inadvertantly teaching (or deliberatly, I don’t care, either way)but i do enjoy pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down

    1. To be completely honest, to accurately answer that question I would have to know more exact details of this specific individual case. As there are many determining factors that would effect the outcome,… i.e one would have to consider the composition and texture of the ligature, was it a rope, or cable? The Width and multiplicity of the ligature, was it broad or narrow, the narrow cutting deeper, more quickly.

      Also you would have to consider the weight of the body and degree of suspension, as well as tightness of the ligature, knot position whether the main force is applied to the neck ligature is opposite to the point of suspension. And the condition of environment he was found in such as time of year, climate, and where the body was found, and to what level of degree of these factors he was exposed.

      As I mentioned earlier, numerous factors go into accurately determining all these details, just as it does in determining the time of death. Under the condition obvious from the pictures above and details I gathered, also considering his age, size and state of decay, as he is already in the 6th day, more than likely once the tissue starts to soften and liquefy (around 4 weeks) he’d come down in 2-3 weeks.

        2. Well, that is an assumption that does holds some truth to it, but it’s not always the case, as with other things I’ve discussed in this post, different factors determine whether or not one does.

          At death, the muscles relax, and the nervous system shuts down, and since both of those help to aid in the process, and to control BM’s (bowel movements) and urination, not to mention the gas that’s produced inside the body that continues after death, that helps move things along, well … you can imagine what that may result in. Also when someone is hanging, there is gravity to consider, if muscles relax, and gases are building to push things along, so if before ones death there was any stool or feces stored in the left hand side of the large bowel, with gravity aiding the process, then the results is, well …. common sense.

          However, if someone had already recently had a BM or recently emptied the bladder, then more than likely nothing would happen, or if the waste had not yet reached the large intestines (in other words … at what stage of the process it was at, at the point of death) also would be a contributing factor, whether or not they could or would, soil themselves.

          1. Cool, now I know the deal. And that is a subject that sometimes comes up in conversation,now I can explain it and people will know that I know, what I’m talkin’ about. Don’t ever stop with the explanations @med, no matter how silly or gross the question is. Thank you!

  19. whats the fu****g deal tonight? Tulio’s thinking about going out with some friends and have a couple o’drinks and try to pick up some chick, but then he pictures himself in a noisy bar, or in a nightclub, readily ordering a bourbon, and then, noise. Noise and darkness. And the Fleshy Virus, Fleshy Virus to his left and right, Fleshy Virus everywhere, retarded male FVs with they idiotic pickup lines “are you from around here? “; “hey, you’re beautiful” …..the suffocating nature of the FVs dialogue and interaction, of those happy FVs totally unaware of their own lack of cognisance…..So Tulio lets his gaze wander, and his eyes rest on a book. It’s Kafka’s Der Prozess (in common-law english speaking countries its wrongly translated as The Trial, missing the original meaning regarding the inquisitorial criminal law procedures) and thinks “Franz Kafka; this man was such a keen observer of the FV behaviour, he was terrified about human society because he understood it far too well for his own well being”…..and then…..and then…..and then……oh fuck, i let the ice on my whisky melt writing this nonsense, gotta get another…

    1. You always gotta’ to show off your professor vocabulary, eh?
      Go get shitfaced you phd having university teaching bananian.
      I too will get shitfaced, and grab the grass so i wont fall off the earth

      1. it wasnt me, the gnome that lives under my keyboard typed that. And It’aint’ no professor vocabulary, or yes, that’s the cool thing about english, anything sounds more professor-like, in spanish its harder to show off, ye know…

  27. My dad was living alone when he passed away in his apartment. It was on a hot day in August in the 70’s. Anyway, a neighbor smelled the decomposition and called the cops. He had been dead for several days and was stiff as a board. My husband and my sister’s husband at the time went to the apartment after my dad was removed to clean the apartment, and said the smell was unbearable. As stiff as he was, the coroner was able to perform an autopsy and found that he had died of hypertensive heart disease. To this day, I don’t know how the hell they were able to perform that autopsy as decomposed and stiff as he was. (Perhaps MedEx could enlighten me.) A friend of my sister’s says she saw the coroner’s van remove my dad from the apartment to the van. Anyway, when the funeral home picked up his body and placed him into a coffin, which was sealed due to his decomposition, the funeral director called me to move up the funeral because of the smell. During his funeral, I didn’t smell anything, so they must’ve applied something to the coffin to seal it up more. Makes me wonder if he looked like that Brazilian man (who also lived alone).

  31. Mark, I thought the video of the squirrel was hilarious! You were stoned in posting it, and I was stoned in watching it, so I understand 😀

    About these pictures, I am surprised the body is THAT decomposed after only 6 days, the picture on the very top when I first opened the post made me say “whoa!” and that’s a rarity. It wasn’t what I was expecting. But then again, I think nearly every suicide that I’ve seen, here, and elsewhere on the internet, it’s always been a fresh suicide(Marcus Jannes, Budd Dwyer), or only a day or two (I’m thinking of the semi-recent post of the woman who overdosed on sleeping pills).

  35. Oily, bloody bastard, why do you bother people with your disgusting stink ? you should dig a hole and shot yourself to fall into the hole,this way these poor bastards would get rid off you only by shoveling some soil on you.

  36. Damn! This set of pictures fits perfectly with the song To a breathless oblivion by The Black Dahlia Murder.
    “The chair has been kicked, a rope tied to the rafters, blue-faced and broken-neck I die.”

  42. Blechh… I sadly do know what that smells like, we had a suicide (hanging) decomp just like this a few weeks ago… He reeked worse then a lot of other decomps I’ve smelled. His arms/hands looked identical to this dudes. It made it really hard to fingerprint.

  44. I call shenanigans on 6 days… unless it was just ungodly hot and humid, which I guess is entirely possible. That simply looks like an excessive amount of decomp for only 6 days. Plus, I just like using the word ‘shenanigans’ whenever I can.

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