You’re not immortal, students warned

♦the death of a student who took Ecstasy as a “final fling” following the end of her university exams has prompted a pathologist to warn young people against fooling themselves into believing they are immortal.

Joana Burns, 22, was celebrating with friends the end of her final year of a maths degree at Sheffield Hallam University when she took a £7 dose of the drug, also known as MDMA.

She began fitting before being rushed to hospital, where she later died.

Pathologist Kim Suvarna told an inquest into her death yesterday in Sheffield: “The young tend to believe they can do things they wish because they are young and immortal. Unfortunately, that doesn’t apply.”