Posted on 01/23/2005 7:54:48 AM PST by indcons
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.
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.
Just damn.
Timing is everything.
Wonder how she's gonna handle it. Sad.
Romeo oh Romeo, where for art thou..
Rossana: "Heh-heh, my plan worked!"
I saw this story last night on Yahoo. How terribly sad.
i hate when that happens
Why can't this happen in the Terry Schiavo case?
My thoughts too.
My thoughts three.
wow, that is just crazy! maybe he woke her up or something!
Shaking head.... so sad for her to have been abandoned like that. The husband, though I'll cut him some slack because I've not been in those shoes, acted like a selfish jerk!
this guy was just an idiot. At least "Juliet" was in a freakin tomb. She was in a hospital, and people often emerge from comas.
That's the most poignant illustration I've ever read of the truism "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
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