LOTR (& Blackhorse 70V)
From my reading of the news on this young man, Aaron Swartz, it seems that he was under an immense amount of pressure and probably felt that he had no one to turn to or nowhere to go.
You had some stupid politician looking to score points off his misfortune and it he was also persecuted by MIT, it must have seemed like his whole world had collapsed.
Anyway, here is the URL leading to the news story on the BBC website:
UK Bob