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This question must be about the last scene in the play. The Friar says, "Come, I'll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of holy nuns." She replies "Go, get thee hence for I will not away." She stays and kills herself.

The prevailing thought in Shakespeare's day was that suicides went to Hell. Consider the discussion of the gravediggers in Hamlet about the putative suicide Ophelia. Is that on Juliet's mind? Is she thinking that since Romeo is a suicide, he must be in Hell, so if she becomes a nun she will go to Heaven and never see him again. Better to commit suicide and join him in Hell. But then, what was Romeo thinking? Balthazar says that Juliet's "immortal part with the angels lives" and yet Romeo wants to send himself to Hell where he will never see her.

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