In 1995 an Australian doctor created the ‘Deliverance Machine’: a euthanasia device which utilised a software called ‘Deliverance’ – patients were posed three questions via a notebook computer, if they answered yes to all three, the machine administered a lethal dose of barbiturates
The “Deliverance Machine”, invented by Philip Nitschke was a euthanasia device which consisted of a notebook computer and software titled “Deliverance”, which asks the patient a series of questions, and automatically administers a lethal injection of barbiturates if the correct answers are made.