How to do a hanging on stage

Anyone have some thoughts for how we can do a hanging on stage. We don't want to do anything symbolic, we really want to simulate the hanging of the character. Obviously we don't want to kill our poor maddie! Any ideas? A harness? A step? Is there anything we can do? Has anyone done it before? Its for the final scenes of the book version of And then there were none. Email me at sono_maschile@yahoo.it thanks, adam