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Why Do Eyes Become White A Couple Of Hours After Committing Suicide By Hanging?

My neice committed suicide by hanging. : ( She was alive at the hospital for several hours and she quickly faded away. Moments after her death, I was able to see her. Here eyes were not brown any more. They were completely white like white out contacts. Why were they white?
Tue, 24 Dec 2013
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This is some what very unusual, actually this ought not to happened, on the contrary, the eyes are becomes more congested in hanging state some time it start bleeding, your question deals with forensic medicine and in this branch every thing is depend upon the carcass examination have nice day.
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Why Do Eyes Become White A Couple Of Hours After Committing Suicide By Hanging?

HI Thank for asking to HCM This is some what very unusual, actually this ought not to happened, on the contrary, the eyes are becomes more congested in hanging state some time it start bleeding, your question deals with forensic medicine and in this branch every thing is depend upon the carcass examination have nice day.