Okay, so perhaps this isn't exactly
Lighter Side material, but it is pretty weird! It seems that the tragic end of
William Shakespeare's famed tale of
two star-crossed lovers was nearly recreated last week by an Italian couple. According to an
article in the
Seattle Post Intelligencer an "Italian man killed himself out of grief for his ailing wife, hours before she came out of a coma." Now, if you'll remember back to your High School years, in Shakespear's play Juliet drinks a potion that put her into a coma-like state in a plan to elope with Romeo. Romeo then finds Juliet and thinking her dead, took his own life. Upon waking, Juliet sees Romeo dead and stabs herself. Lets hope the candy-stripers are smart enough to keep the butter knives off this poor woman's tray of hospital food!