Strange love

They say people grieve in a lot of different ways. And not all of them are healthy. Case in point:

A Taiwan man grieving over the death of his girlfriend climbed inside a morgue freezer to be with her and was only pulled out alive half an hour later, media and an official said on Tuesday.

The 41-year-old man was discovered on Monday when workers detected an unusually high temperature in the freezer and realized the hatch was not securely fastened.

"A morgue manager opened the hatch, saw two people lying inside, felt scared enough to yell out and then even cried," the Liberty Times reported. "She didn't stabilize for a long time."

The man took a drug before entering the freezer to speed what appeared to be suicide attempt, local papers said. They said his girlfriend died on Friday from an overdose of sleeping pills.

Why is it that when something like this happens at the end of a certain overrated play about "star-crossed lovers," people think it's incredibly romantic, but when it happens in real life, it's just creepy and sad? Funny how that works.