The finding of an old post-mortem report concerning the suicide of a pregnant woman in the archive of The Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Milan, offered the opportunity to research similar cases. Despite the fact that the above mentioned archive contains as many as 95.000 reports, no other cases were found, supporting the conclusions of scientific literature on the rarity of this phenomenon. The matter has however been the subject of a number of studies and the Authors analyse them in detail. With regard to the cases, they had to “resort” to articles published on several newspapers between 1980 and 2009, and could thus review 16 cases of suicide and 10 cases of attempted suicide during pregnancy, analyzing the age of the victim, her marital status, the month of gestation, how the victim attempted/committed suicide, comparing data with the ones available in other scientific publications.
