By . Simon Tomlinson . Two 12-year-old Chinese girls have killed themselves in bizarre circumstances after leaving suicide notes saying they believed their deaths would enable them to travel back in time. The tragic chain of events began when one of the girls decided to take her own life because she was so distraught at losing a house key. Her best friend, not wishing to live without her fifth-grade classmate, vowed they should die together. Fateful fiction: The girls were apparently inspired to commit suicide because of a desire to travel back in time. Some believe they were influenced by time travel TV . Time travel TV shows like this, have been blamed for inspiring young Chinese children to commit suicide in the hope of visiting 'the past' They each wrote suicide notes and hid them in a cupboard before jumping into a pond to drown themselves. In a message left by one of the girls, Xiao Mei, she said her friend, Xiao Hua, was terrified of being punished for misplacing the remote control to the rolling door of her house in Zhangzhou. 'My good sister has lost the key and was afraid of being scolded. She wants to die, and I decided to die together with her. 'Please don't worry too much. We weren't born at the same time on the same day, but we want to [die] at the same time on the same day. 'In my life, I have two secret wishes. 'One is to time-travel back to Qing Dynasty and shoot a film with the emperor, and the other is to travel to outer space.'Source: shanghaiist.com . Xiao Mei penned that she dreamt of . travelling back to the Qing Dynasty, which ruled between 1644 and 1911, . it was reported on People's Daily Online. Their deaths have reignited a fierce debate in China about time travel TV programmes, . which were banned by the government last year in a move heavily criticised as a gross over-reaction. Some shows feature storylines in which women travel back in time and fall in love in the Qing Dynasty after a car crash or being struck by lightning. Sun Yunxiao, deputy director of China Youth and Children Research Center, told People's Daily Online: 'Schoolchildren are rich in curiosity, but poor in judgment. 'I have heard of children jumping from high buildings after watching an actor flying in a magic show. 'This kind of imitative behavior is in the nature of young children, but it's very dangerous. So we should give some sort of warning for children on TV programs.'
Chinese Government blames time travel TV shows .
Drowned themselves in pond in bizarre chain of events .
Suicide note expressed dreams of visiting past dynasty .
By . Simon Tomlinson . Two 12-year-old Chinese girls have killed themselves in bizarre circumstances after leaving suicide notes saying they believed their deaths would enable them to travel back in time. The tragic chain of events began when one of the girls decided to take her own life because she was so distraught at losing a house key. Her best friend, not wishing to live without her fifth-grade classmate, vowed they should die together. Fateful fiction: The girls were apparently inspired to commit suicide because of a desire to travel back in time. Some believe they were influenced by time travel TV . Time travel TV shows like this, have been blamed for inspiring young Chinese children to commit suicide in the hope of visiting 'the past' They each wrote suicide notes and hid them in a cupboard before jumping into a pond to drown themselves. In a message left by one of the girls, Xiao Mei, she said her friend, Xiao Hua, was terrified of being punished for misplacing the remote control to the rolling door of her house in Zhangzhou. 'My good sister has lost the key and was afraid of being scolded. She wants to die, and I decided to die together with her. 'Please don't worry too much. We weren't born at the same time on the same day, but we want to [die] at the same time on the same day. 'In my life, I have two secret wishes. 'One is to time-travel back to Qing Dynasty and shoot a film with the emperor, and the other is to travel to outer space.'Source: shanghaiist.com . Xiao Mei penned that she dreamt of . travelling back to the Qing Dynasty, which ruled between 1644 and 1911, . it was reported on People's Daily Online. Their deaths have reignited a fierce debate in China about time travel TV programmes, . which were banned by the government last year in a move heavily criticised as a gross over-reaction. Some shows feature storylines in which women travel back in time and fall in love in the Qing Dynasty after a car crash or being struck by lightning. Sun Yunxiao, deputy director of China Youth and Children Research Center, told People's Daily Online: 'Schoolchildren are rich in curiosity, but poor in judgment. 'I have heard of children jumping from high buildings after watching an actor flying in a magic show. 'This kind of imitative behavior is in the nature of young children, but it's very dangerous. So we should give some sort of warning for children on TV programs.'
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