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Postmodern Death

Two male Edinburgh University students have been found dead in a Scottish hotel, in a laptop suicide pact.

UD doesn’t understand how you set up a laptop to inject drugs for you.

[They] used a laptop to deliver lethal overdoses – and may have broadcast their final moments using a webcam.

Police are probing the possibility that the harrowing footage of their deaths may have been aired over the internet.

Last night, a source said: “It looks like this was meticulously planned.

“The room was tidy and they seemed to have set up a laptop so they didn’t have to inject the drugs directly – they appear to have had a reasonable level of medical knowledge and skill.

“It also looked as if they had set up a camera to film what was happening…”

Margaret Soltan, June 11, 2010 8:32AM
Posted in: STUDENTS

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2 Responses to “Postmodern Death”

  1. GTWMA Says:

    A laptop can operate a camera, hard drive, etc. No problem to it. Laptop just drives a pump which is hooked up to USB through a converter, usually.

    http://www.internationaltaskforce.org/rpt2005_3.htm

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Thank you, GTWMA.

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