madikeri four members of a family consumed poison in a bid to end their lives but ended up in a hospital at mangalore though the parents are recovering their two children are fighting for life in the icu according to police vijayakumar 45 a native of sullya and resident of madikeri decided to end his life due to his illness and also because he couldnt repay his debts on wednesday night he mixed poison in the food and served it to his wife pramila 35 children nishmita 8 and tashmitha 6 and a half years eight year old nishmita told the doctor at the hospital that when the poison did not work her father woke them up at 3 am on thursday and forced them to drink poison even when they said no the second dose worked on them and all of them began to suffer vijayakumar had left a letter stating that he couldnt look after the family due with the burdens of ill health and debts and so he had decided to commit suicide and kill the members of family he called his brotherinlaw and told him that they consumed poison after which they were immediately rushed to a madikeri hospital after the first aid they were shifted to mangalore wenlock hospital dr raghavendra bhat at wenlock hospital said the parents were out of danger and the children are being kept under observation police have registered a case against vijayakumar according to the his brotherinlaws complaint vijayakumar is a bus driver in mangalore and said in his letter that he cannot work there anymore