Painful Death! Wasted Life!22-yr-old student burns self to death after father stopped him from playing video games

The blackened ground where Hsueh Jun-Chen set himself on fire can be seen Hsueh Jun-Chen burnt himself to death

A 22-year-old Taiwanese student, Hsueh Jun-Chen, has burnt himself to death after his father asked him to stop playing video game and go to bed.

The online games fan was reportedly in his room at his family home in Fenyuan town, western Taiwan, when father, Liu, told him to go to sleep.

After a heated exchange, 48-year-old Liu told his son to stop his gaming habits.

The father thought that was the end of the matter until he could not find his son the following day.

He went outside to look for him and found the undergraduate's charred remains about 300 meters away from the house.

There were empty bottles of petrol nearby.

A devastated Liu told  Daily Mail that he had only asked his son to stop gaming because of his academics.

"I had simply said that he should sleep rather than play because university was starting again after the holidays.

"He said he would and that's the last time I saw him alive.

'When I saw that he wasn't in his room the next day, I went into the garage to see if he had gone out on his motorbike.

"The bike was still there but I noticed that two cans of petrol were missing.

"That made me feel worried and I began to fear the worst."

One of Hsueh's teachers, Li Hong, described him as 'very smart.'

"I'm very, very surprised. He was such a bright boy; very smart, always did well in class," BHong said.

"This is very sad and very unexpected."

His friend, On Feng, also 22, said the suicide left him 'speechless'.

"I am speechless. I knew he liked playing games, we often did it online together, and I knew he often stayed up late, but I just can't comprehend this."

Police believe that academic pressures and worries about getting a job after graduation may have contributed to his decision to commit suicide.