1. Suicide by disembowelment was favoured because it was slow and painful and therefore demonstrated courage, self-control, and strong resolve.

2. Disembowelment or evisceration is the removing of some or all of the vital organs, usually from the abdomen.

3. Disembowelment played a part as a method of execution and ritual suicides once in Japan.

4. A Japanese citizen failed in his attempt to commit Seppuku, a form of ritual suicide by disembowelment, in front of the Houses of Parliament in Tokyo Monday after police foiled his bid.

5. Traditionally, the monks who cant complete the task must take their own lives either by hanging or disembowelment.

6. Very quickly the meat line trundles away from me: legs off, skin pulled away, disembowelment, the headless carcass sawn in half.

7. In Japan, Samurai warriors would carry out Seppuku, a ritual suicide by disembowelment, rather than fall into enemy hands.

8. He would kill them with a variety of methods, which included dismemberment, decapitation and disembowelment.

9. But the signs of torture -- the cuts, the disembowelment -- were along the lines of what officials are used to seeing in drug-related violence.