In Hungary the number of suicidal cases is continuously declining since 1988. Despite this fact the rate of suicide is still rather high (25/100000 inhabitants while the EU average is 17/100000.) Last year we admitted two cases during a weekend, who committed suicide independently by self-inflicted burns. As an apropos of these cases we analyzed the suicide attempts with self-burning during the past 20 years in our ward. Between 1994 and 2014 we treated 5892 number of burn cases at the Burn

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... of the University of Debrecen. Among these patients there were 2054 patients with a burn between 20-96% of TBSA. Among these cases we had treated 13 admissions who committed suicide by either gasoline, pressurized butane gas, electricity or corrosive materials. The involved TBSA was 1-70% (with a mean area of 41 %).