The article deals with the role of the situation in the structure of driving to suicide mechanism. The situation of driving to suicide is differentiated into stages of its development, the article also determines temporal connections of this crime and distinguishes types of driving to suicide places with the focus on the role of these elements in criminalistic characteristics of crimes as well as and their interconnections. A place of driving to suicide is a place, where preparations prior to the crime have been carried out, the crime had been committed (threats, cruel treatment, systematic humiliation of human dignity, blackmail); a place with traces and evidence of a criminal trespass (place of suicide); place of concealment of traces and evidence of the crime, instruments andfacilities of its commission, the object of a criminal trespass (staging of suicide, murder). The time of driving to suicide allows establishing the sequence and development of different processes. The situation of driving to suicide consists of non-interference and omission by individuals (relatives, colleagues, friends and others) in whose presence a criminal mistreats or humiliates the personal dignity of the victim.