일본의 고독사(孤獨死)와 정신질환(精神疾患)과의 관계(關聯)

The Relations of the Dying Alone and Mental Disease based on the Research for the Forensic Autopsy

The problem on dying alone may be regarded as the cause of thin relationship to the society. From the aspect of wellness for mind and body(the quality of life), people who suffer from mental disease hardly obtain understanding from their surroundings and also have a thin relationship to the society. The research investigated the relations between dying alone and mental disease by using the samples of forensic autopsies for the past three years. We sorted thd samples by sex, age, cause of death. A total of 472 dying-alones(dying alone cases) were found in 1702 samlpes of forensic autopsies and 123 mental disease patents were included in dying-alones(dying alone cases). The age structure of the group has a higher rate of the young people than the old people. The cause of death in the group of mental disease patients for both sex has a high rate of female mental disease patients under 65 of age. There are the deaths considered as resulting from the drug overdose. The drug overdose are obviously found in mental disease patients. It indicate that they need mental support.