Students Commit Suicide Using Laptop Injection

11:00 AM - June 14, 2010 - By Kevin Parrish - Source : Tom's Guide US

Was it intentional, or a case of Russian roulette?

Two "highly intelligent" UK college students were found slumped in their chairs, dead and facing each other, in a UK Ramada seafront hotel after management became concerned when they did not show up to check out. The grisly scene revealed that a laptop was used to administer lethal injections similar to the way Philip "Dr. Death" Nitschke terminated patients using his "Deliverance Machine" back in the late 1990s.

Twenty-year-old Robert Miller and nineteen-year-old James "Jim" Robertson both studied for joint math and physics degrees at Edinburgh University. Both traveled eighty miles north to the £65-a-night Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Ayr, and were reportedly "happy and chatty" with the staff when they checked in the day before. But upon discovery of their seated bodies, police inspected the laptop and determined that their deaths were intentional, ruling out any possible inclinations of foul play.

The university, parents, and friends are shocked. Currently there is an investigation underway to determine the motives behind their apparent suicide. Based on the laptop, many are worried that the two students were influenced by the Australian doctor. His "Deliverance Machine" consisted of a notebook and software called "Deliverance." The program asks the "patient" a series of questions--if they are answered correctly, the laptop will administer a lethal injection of barbiturates.

But was this an intentional suicide? Or a game of Russian roulette? No additional details were disclosed (as in possible alcohol levels, pictures of the laptop), and everyone associated with the students are clueless. "Nobody has any idea what is behind this and we are absolutely shattered," said councilor Ian Johnston. "I knew Jim. He was in the same year at school as my own son, so it has hit my family hard as well."

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acadia11 06/15/2010 3:16 AM

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This is like one of those clever things you can unfortunately only do once.

mchawk 06/15/2010 4:42 AM

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If I had to use that laptop I'd probably kill myself too!

Jokes apart, RIP.

Deadstick50 06/15/2010 5:16 AM

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Wow, Darwin Awards all around then, ehh?

Anonymous 06/15/2010 5:25 AM

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That's Dr. Philip Nitschke not just Philip Nitschke.

Hellbound 06/15/2010 5:45 AM

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I dont see how this can be an accident..

ordcestus 06/15/2010 8:08 AM

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How do people even think of wanting to play around like that?

i can't believe this world sometimes...

whitecrowro 06/15/2010 9:11 AM

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maths, physics, laptops..no girls, no sun.. bad recipe for the soul

david__t 06/15/2010 12:36 PM

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It cannot be an accident or a result of drunkeness, since you'd have to be pretty calm and collected to properly insert the tubes in to your veins for the system to even work...

Anonymous 06/15/2010 3:22 PM

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You mean like how junkies are always calm and sober???

superblahman123 06/15/2010 4:43 PM

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but the real question here is.... can the "Deliverance Machine" play Crysis?

stromm 06/15/2010 4:48 PM

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Accidents are something that happens to you. Stupidity is something you do to yourself.

sliem 06/15/2010 5:02 PM

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Dang, what were they thinking... it's a puzzle.

joebob2000 06/15/2010 6:40 PM

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You know what they say about suicide machines... "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and I want a refund"

korsen 06/15/2010 7:00 PM

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Well, the world isn't the greatest place to be. You can't live off one income anymore, a college degree doesn't promise you a job, and when you get a job you're working as dehumanized labor, management doesn't care about their workers, joint math and physics can be quite taxing on the mind. Shame on all of you for thinking two 20 year olds killing themselves is a joke. For some non-emo kids the world has to suck a whole lot for it to come to that. Some of us are just made of stronger stuff. Similar happenings at NYU. And foxconn's factories that high-tech ceo's claim is pretty nice (along with a 66% raise??) - Think they all killed themselves cause they're stupid? If your answer is yes, why do we still have trailer parks and ghettos?

korsen 06/15/2010 7:06 PM

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Don't answer that, just kill yourself too then.

dxwarlock 06/15/2010 7:18 PM

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korsen :
Well, the world isn't the greatest place to be. You can't live off one income anymore, a college degree doesn't promise you a job, and when you get a job you're working as dehumanized labor, management doesn't care about their workers, joint math and physics can be quite taxing on the mind. Shame on all of you for thinking two 20 year olds killing themselves is a joke. For some non-emo kids the world has to suck a whole lot for it to come to that. Some of us are just made of stronger stuff. Similar happenings at NYU. And foxconn's factories that high-tech ceo's claim is pretty nice (along with a 66% raise??) - Think they all killed themselves cause they're stupid? If your answer is yes, why do we still have trailer parks and ghettos?

fyasko 06/17/2010 7:08 AM

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welcome to earth...been happening for 1000's of years. railroad workers, coal miners, slaves, sailors on old world sail boats, anyone working during the industrial revolution, man kinds been like this since we left the caves...
dont act like its a revelation that the world needs to be told... just because you realized it.

thank you. the way i see it the more people you have the more likely you will have rapists, murderers, and weird/macabre things happening to people from people. it's just human nature and the law of numbers.