A person can be suffocated by being smothered with a pillow
Multiple forensic and epidemiological studies confirm that smothering with a pillow can cause fatal suffocation or positional asphyxia.
The claim is specific and empirically verifiable. Retrieved forensic and epidemiological papers consistently report cases of suffocation and asphyxia resulting from smothering with pillows or bedclothes. Therefore, the evidence clearly supports the claim.
Elie Boghossian, Silvia Tambuscio, Anny Sauvageau. Nonchemical Suffocation Deaths in Forensic Setting: A 6‐Year Retrospective Study of Environmental Suffocation, Smothering, Choking, and Traumatic/Positional Asphyxia*. 2010. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01351.x
Paper 0 reviews forensic data on nonchemical suffocation and notes that smothering is a documented cause of death.
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Andreas Schmeling, Tony Fracasso, Fritz Pragst, Michael Tsokos, Ingo Wirth. Unassisted smothering in a pillow.. 2009. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-009-0362-7
Paper 5 presents a forensic case report where a man died from obstructive asphyxia after his face was pressed against a pillow.
Christopher E Gaw, Thitphalak Chounthirath, Jonathan Midgett, Kyran Quinlan, Gary A Smith. Types of Objects in the Sleep Environment Associated With Infant Suffocation and Strangulation.. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2017.07.002
Paper 8 analyzes sleep-related infant fatalities and identifies pillows as objects frequently associated with unintentional suffocation.
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