death

• Shakespeare may have wanted to remind his reader of the fragility of life.
• 'These violent delights have violent ends.'- Friar Lawrence, Act 2, Scene 6
• 'Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the fields'- Lord Capulet, Act 5, Scene 1
• Context around death:

  Death was frequently romanticised in the Renaissance Era of Literature. Suicide would have been seen as a sin in the Catholic Church.