The inability to breathe is one of the most frightening and terrorizing experiences any person can go through. Strack says that abusers who strangle or suffocate their victims know it often leaves little to no visible evidence of the internal injury or trauma it causes, making it easy for the abusers to avoid accountability.
Based on focus groups with survivors, we know batterers suffocate their victims in order to silence them, says Strack. If they restrict air flow long enough, the victim will lose consciousness and death can occur in under 5 minutes. Suffocation is also thought to occur in conjunction with strangulation most of the time, according to a report by forensic pathologist Dean Hawley for the National Strangulation Training Institute.
Hawley writes that the most typical scenario is for the victim to be on their back on the bed or floor with the abuser sitting on him or her, strangling them. Filters 0. Words form: suffocated suffocates suffocating. See word origin. Suffocate is to cut off the supply of air, or to feel stifled and oppressed. To kill or destroy by preventing access of air or oxygen. To impair the breathing of or cause discomfort to by cutting off the supply of fresh air. To suppress the development, imagination, or creativity of; stifle.
To feel discomfort from lack of fresh air. Often combined with Sickbed Slaying. Compare Instant Sedation and Instant Death Bullet for similar examples of the unrealistically quick dispatch of a human being. Occasionally overlaps with Sinister Suffocation and even Mercy Kill. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account.
Vaya con Dios, amigo. Crawley," I said, "and that you're about to try to fabricate. So, before you say anything, you should know that, if I sense you're lying, or even being incomplete, I'm going to pull that pillow out from under your head and smother you with it. Take a moment and imagine what that'll be like. Anime and Manga.
Black Lagoon uses this trope in a more realistic fashion than the standard. Revy appears to try killing her father this way, but simply uses the pillow to muffle the blast from her gun. This is the way Nogiku kills Nina in Kasane. Somewhat justified here, as the victim neither has the means she can't move nor the will to resist , and this method is the least likely to leave traces of murder.
Comic Books. Semi-justified in that Sofia is a very strong woman and Alberto is very frail - she didn't suffocate so much as crush him. When Tommy's mother in Batman: Hush recovered from cancer, she disowned him, subsequently cutting him off from the Elliot family fortune in retaliation for his continuing relationship with Peyton. As a result, Tommy killed her by smothering her with a pillow, while Peyton killed their lawyer and destroyed Mrs.
Elliot's new will. The "instant strangulation" trope is averted in the remake of Unknown Soldier. The main character uses a makeshift garrote to quietly kill a Child Soldier and thinks to himself how it takes a long time to strangle a person, even a young boy. Even he's surprised, and he's a doctor. Fan Works. It doesn't work. Averted in If Them's the Rules , when Buck attempts to smother an ill Tom Riddle, it takes a while for Tom to start blacking out and is struggling the whole time. In A Thing of Vikings : Father Hendricksson attempts to smother Ruffnut with a pillow after baptizing her in her sleep in order to get rid of her pagan influence and make it look it she died from the aftereffects of childbirth.
However Einar catches him and intervenes on the attempted assassination. Bizarro stuffing a pillow over Bizarro Lois Lane ' head is their idea of foreplay. Film - Live Action. In Black Cougar , one of the villains tries to kill a witness in this manner. Luckily, Black Cougar saves her.
Greta is killed this way in Blood and Black Lace. Body : Tired of waiting for Arthur to die, Cali takes matters into her own hands and smothers him with a cushion. Perhaps the earliest example of this trope in film. John Gray the cadaver seller in The Body Snatcher , based on the crimes of Burke and Hare see Real Life below , smothers Joseph to death without a pillow by pinning him down and forcefully pressing a hand over the nose and mouth.
Joseph struggles and suffocates for a couple of minutes before expiring. In The Comedy of Terrors , this is how Trumbull disposes of his first victim in an effort to drum up business for his struggling funeral parlor. This plan goes awry when the elderly victim's young widow immediately leaves town with all his money and possessions she doesn't even pay off the servants.
Near the end of Dead Again , the detective is given the key to the murder mystery after talking to a housebound old woman. The woman is subsequently visited by the murderer, who gently makes sure she's comfortably tucked up in bed and then suffocates her with her pillow.
In Death Walks on High Heels , the killer murders Nicole by smothering her with a cushion: the only one of his victims he does not kill by slitting their throat.
Played with in John Waters ' Desperate Living : it doesn't take more than a few seconds for maid Grizelda Brown Jean Hill to kill Peggy Gravel Mink Stole 's husband, but then again a lb woman sitting on a man's face ain't exactly a pillow A different version in Dillinger Dillinger's gang have to flee their hideout after G-Men attack, but one of them is too wounded to flee, so Pretty Boy Floyd covers his face with a pillow and shoots his pistol into it.
This is right in the middle of a gunfight involving automatic weapons, so it's more like a blindfolded execution than a covert murder. In Emelie , the eponymous babysitter attempts to do this to one of her charges, only to realize he's no longer in the bed.
The Escapist : After battering Tony with a chair , Lacey grabs a pillow and attempts to finish him off with it. He might have succeeded if Frank hadn't hauled him off. In The Good Son Henry attempts to do this to his sister Connie after he had earlier tried to drown her by pushing her onto thin ice, he stops because he notices his mother is in the room and pretends he was fluffing her pillows to cover it up.
Toyed with in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly when Angel Eyes "the Bad" , played by Lee Van Cleef , does the Sickbed Slaying of his erstwhile employer by first covering over the guy's face with the pillow, then shoots twice through it into the guy's face. Gore Orphanage has the trope performed with a teddy bear. The Grey Zone : In the opening, the Sonderkommandos smother one of their own with a pillow as a mercy kill.
Haywire plays with the trope by having the protagonist appear to start to apply the pillow to a defeated opponent — only to instead fire her gun through the pillow to kill the guy instead. The old Hong Kong horror film Hell Has No Boundary has a rather disturbing and graphic example, where a little girl is eliminated by her own parents using a pillow.
Subverted in Inglorious Basterds. During his murder-montage, Hugo Stiglitz is seen shoving a pillow over the face of a Gestapo officer In Joker , while Arthur Fleck was visiting his mother, Penny, in the hospital after finding out he was adopted, he kills her by using her pillow.
Made somewhat plausible by the fact that Lockwood is a crippled, dying old man on life support. Her son, Gerard Vollrath 48 , was convicted last year of attempted murder and given a three-year suspended prison sentence.
A murder charge against Mr Vollrath was dropped and he pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to attempted murder. The trial heard it could not be said for certain that Mrs Vollrath, who had a number of serious medical conditions, was not already dead when her son put a pillow over her face. Coroner John Goff said he had to wait until the criminal proceedings were concluded last year and that the difficulty with Dr Jaber was that he is now living abroad.
Dr Jaber resigned from his post in He asked Mrs Kirk if she wanted the inquest adjourned to see if Dr Jaber would return and she indicated she did not. New judges expected to be announced within two weeks.
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