結婚を許されなかった二人は、ついに情死を選んだ。
Forbidden to marry, the two finally chose to die together as lovers.
その作家は愛人と川に身を投げて情死した。
The writer drowned himself in the river with his lover in a double suicide.
江戸時代には情死を題材にした浄瑠璃が多く書かれた。
In the Edo period, many joruri plays were written about lovers' suicides.