In the play Romeo and Juliet, both Romeo and Juliet die. It would be easy to point blame as to why this happened at many of the characters in the play but Friar Lawrence is the biggest culprit. Although you could say that if their parents had allowed them to marry they never would have been in the situation, but it was Friars mistake that caused them both to die. Friar is the culprit because he provided the potion that would "kill" Juliet for 48 hours, and was expected and trusted to give word to Romeo that she was still alive and would wake up in two days. But, he failed to pass on that information, and instead Romeo told that Juliet was dead. When Romeo was first told, he even asked "hast thou no letters to me from the friar?"(v.i.31) which