With Utah’s concerns about youth suicide, should students study ‘Romeo and Juliet’?

Pitch this story today — two lovesick teenagers say they can’t live without each other, and die by suicide when each thinks the other is dead — and many parents, educators and mental-health advocates would criticize it as irresponsible.It’s also the plot of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo & Juliet,’ which remains a high-school staple.“In some ways, ‘Romeo & Juliet’ is the ultimate romanticization of suicide,” said Seymour Paul, a sen