Posted on 01/22/2005 10:20:33 AM PST by nickcarraway
ROME Jan 21, 2005 — Evoking comparisons to "Romeo and Juliet," a husband in northern Italy killed himself out of grief for his ailing wife, hours before she came out of a coma, Italian state TV reported Friday.
RAI state TV said the husband visited his 67-year-old wife daily, sometimes coming to the hospital in Padua as much as four times a day, after she went into a coma after a stroke in September.
On Wednesday, the 71-year-old man committed suicide at the couple's Padua-area home, according to RAI and the Italian news agency ANSA. About 12 hours later, the wife emerged from the coma and asked for her husband, ANSA said.
ANSA quoted their pastor as saying the husband had told him he was very pessimistic about prospects for his wife's recovery.
I'd say it's a little more like Pyramus and Thisbe.
More like dumbass and the woman who married him.
Don't know about pyramus, but I used to play thisbe with my dogs. We're all too old to do it now.
FMCDH(BITS)
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