Juliet dies by her own hand after awaking from the sleeping potion Friar Laurence gave her. When Juliet wakes up in her family mausoleum (her family, believing her dead, had placed her body there), she discovers Romeo's dead body next to her. He believed she was actually dead and took poison, collapsing dead by her side. Despite the Friar's entreaties, Juliet grabs Romeo's dagger and thrusts it into her heart. She falls dead, her body draped over Romeo's. This act is the culmination of a series of unfortunate events that demonstrate that the two lovers really are, as the chorus says at the beginning of the play, "star-cross'd." Their deaths do convince the two families, the Montagues and Capulets, that their feud has gone too far. In the presence of the corpses of their children, Montague and Capulet vow to end their long dispute.
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