情じょう死し

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

lovers' suicide; double suicide

Refers to a suicide committed by two lovers together, often due to societal or familial obstacles. The verb form is 情死する.

• 二人ふたりは駆かけ落おちの末すえ、情じょう死しした。

  The two eloped and eventually committed lovers' suicide.

• この小しょう説せつは若わかい男だん女じょの情じょう死しを描えがいている。

  This novel depicts the lovers' suicide of a young man and woman.