London: A young girl has killed herself after becoming convinced that the world would end in 2012.
She hanged herself after researching doomsday scenarios on the internet, an inquest heard.
Schoolgirl Isabel Taylor, 16, turned to Buddhism after becoming fed up with the ‘complications and injustice’ of the modern world, the Daily Mail reported.
But while searching for answers she began researching doomsday scenarios – becoming convinced a nuclear reactor meltdown would end civilisation in the coming months.
She had researched on the internet how to overdose but was found hanged in her bedroom by her mother.
Links were found on her computer to websites predicting the doomsday scenario would take place in 2012.
Yesterday her parents Gary, 51, and Ingrid, 48, said in a statement: ‘We have questioned and searched our hearts to try to find an answer to why Isabel went down this devastating path.
She read articles on all different types of things which could make the world end, she read about 15 to 20 articles over the course of 2011 with her best friend.
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