Lion King Suicide
Matthew S. Schell
US. With our political climate, there'd suddenly be some giant parents group pushing to get the
film banned. =/
Adam D. Moss wrote:
>
> Thought someone here might find this interesting... and sad. :(
> Story from today's U.K. news (taken from the Electronic Telegraph).
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> Boy killed himself to be the Lion King
> By Mark Storey
>
> A BOY of 14 killed himself to try to become the
> Lion King of the Disney cartoon film, an inquest
> heard yesterday. Imtiaz Ahmed hanged himself
> from a tree with a clothes line and left a
> handwritten note for his family. It said: "I'm
> going to die because I want to be a Lion King.
> Mum and dad please put the Lion King film in my
> grave with me.
>
> "I killed myself because I wanted to become a
> Lion King. Goodbye mum and dad, brothers and
> sisters, goodbye forever." The note was read out
> at the inquest yesterday at
> Newcastle-under-Lyme, by the North Staffordshire
> coroner Mr Edwin Wain. Imtiaz was found near his
> home in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, a day after he
> went missing in November last year. Police found
> a diary in his pocket where he recorded his
> fantasies about the Lion King.
>
> One entry read: "Let me die Allah please. Lion
> King film with me. Please Allah make me a Lion
> King. I wish I was a Lion King please." In the
> film, a naive but heroic cub, Simba, grows to
> become a Lion King - the ruler the jungle -
> after the death of his father. Recording an open
> verdict, Mr Wain said that, although Imtiaz had
> become obsessed with the film after watching it
> four times and identified with the cub, he did
> not know why he had killed himself.
>
> "Imtiaz was obsessed by the Lion King"
>
> "Was his wish to actually bring about a
> metamorphosis, a physical change or rebirth, so
> that he was still Imtiaz Ahmed and the Lion
> King? "I have no doubt from the evidence that
> Imtiaz was obsessed by the Lion King and I think
> he fantasised secretly about it.
>
> "I ask myself, was Imtiaz a naive, curious cub?
> Did he properly address his 14-year-old mind to
> the enormity of his actions or was it an inward
> voice or a macabre compulsion or was it acting
> out of fantasy? "I do not pretend to know but I
> find nothing sinister or suspicious in the
> circumstances surrounding his death." Mr Wain
> said Simba experienced some very tough
> challenges in the film before taking his
> rightful place as king of the jungle.
>
> "The film treats death very delicately and not
> with harsh reality. I take the view that a
> watching child could take the view that Simba's
> father did not really die. "He is seen in the
> film in the sky benignly caring for his son
> Simba down below and, according to the video,
> the destination of all Lion Kings is among the
> stars looking down and caring." Mr Wain said the
> case had caused him "a great deal of personal
> heartache and trouble as to what to make of it".
>
> "He was a happy and outgoing young man"
>
> The possibility of suicide was there for all to
> see, he said, and he was satisfied that Imtiaz
> had physically hanged himself. Imtiaz's father,
> Manzoor Ahmed, told the inquest that his son,
> one of six children, was happy and had many
> friends. He said he had last seen him at 3.30pm
> on Nov 11 when he said he was going out to play.
>
> "He was a happy and outgoing young man. He was
> always on the go. I tell my children to be in by
> 7pm but Imtiaz was still missing." Calls to
> Imtiaz's friends proved fruitless but he decided
> not to search the copse because it was dark. Pc
> Philip White said he found Imtiaz's
> fully-clothed body hanging from the branch of a
> tree in the copse. A large yellow oil drum was
> lying on its side next to Imtiaz's feet, which
> touched the ground.
>
> Mrs Eileen Lovatt, Imtiaz's teacher at Trent
> Valley High School, Penkhull, said he once asked
> if she had watched the film. "I told him I had
> taken my children to watch it that week. He was
> a happy-go-lucky young lad who wanted to learn."
> After the hearing Mr Ahmed said: "I don't accept
> this open verdict.
>
> "Imtiaz would never do anything like that. If he
> had a problem he would tell me." A spokesman for
> Walt Disney UK said: "We are shocked to hear
> about the circumstances of this young boy's
> death and our sympathies are with the parents."
>
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Theodore Patri Perrotti
something like this happened.
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"Remember"-Mufasa's ghost, The Lion King
Theodore P. Perrotti te...@wpi.edu (all mail forwarded to here)
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Sophie Davies
<te...@wpi.WPI.EDU> scribbled:
>I found this while reading alt.fan.furry. I still cannot believe
>something like this happened.
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>Thought someone here might find this interesting... and sad. :(
>Story from today's U.K. news (taken from the Electronic Telegraph).
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Boy killed himself to be the Lion King
> By Mark Storey
>
> A BOY of 14 killed himself to try to become the
> Lion King of the Disney cartoon film, an inquest
> heard yesterday. Imtiaz Ahmed hanged himself
> from a tree with a clothes line and left a
> handwritten note for his family. It said: "I'm
> going to die because I want to be a Lion King.
> Mum and dad please put the Lion King film in my
> grave with me.
*snipped*
I can't read anymore. The poor boy!
It's such a terrible thing to do. And only at 14:(
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Stefan Lesser
Theodore Patri Perrotti wrote:
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> Boy killed himself to be the Lion King
Uh oh, that's _terrible!_
I mean I'm obsessed by the film, too, but there's still no reason for
suiciding me...
What I can't get into my mind is:
Why should he be a Lion King after his death? Strange...
But, Theodore, thanks for posting it. Still have to think about it...
> Theodore P. Perrotti te...@wpi.edu (all mail forwarded to here)
> perrot...@asme.org
Bye
Stefan
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