Real Life Romeo and Juliette

ROME (Reuters) – An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell into
a coma, but just hours after he killed himself the woman woke up, Italian media
reported on Saturday.
Recalling the end of "Romeo and Juliet," the 70-year-old man, Ettore,
who had sat by his wife’s bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma
following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage
of his family home.

Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua
and immediately asked for him.

Her first words were "Is the son of a bitch gone yet?"

The northern town of Padua lies just 40 miles from Verona, where star-crossed
lover Romeo killed himself believing Juliet to have died. But minutes later
Juliet woke up and seeing Romeo dead, stabbed herself.

Upon first seeing the play, we refused to believe anybody, even
love-struck teenagers, could be as retarded as Romeo and Juliette. Guess
it’s a regional, Northern Italian kinda thing….

from Reuters