LONDON - A 14 year old boy killed himself apparently because the Disney film Lion King made such an impression on him that he wanted to be reborn as the central character, a coroner said this week.
The coroner, Mr Edwin Wain, told an inquest in Staffordshire, that Imtiaz Ahmed may not have believed that he would really die. The inquest was told Ahmed hanged himself from a tree with a clothes line last November. He left his family a note saying "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."