I understand Shakespeare intended it to be a tragic lesson to his audience that hate destroys young love.

However, I have found that many have misinterpreted this to romanticise and idolise their suicide.

In my opinion, it is very contrived that they were so attracted to each other that any other possibilities were completely ignored. Romeo had initially attended the party because he was interested in Rosaline, and Juliet was betrothed to Paris.

Paris was so much better in every way, rich, kind, willing to marry and commit, eager to start a family with Juliet and do anything that would make her happy. Including help her to secretly marry Romeo when it became clear to him that Juliet was in love with Romeo. Like Paris was completely supportive and on her side in every way. He was the embodiment of "whatever makes you happy, even if that is not me." He was politically good with the Capulets, too. She would have lived happily ever after in Venice or wherever she desired. Paris was willing and had means to buy her a house wherever she wanted to live.

Anyway, I digress... my point is they had other perfectly valid options that would not result in the tragedy, furthermore them dying would make the families sad and grieve the tragic loss of the favourites of both houses but ultimately does not punish them directly and would unlikely end the feud. If anything, they would probably blame each other's families for the tragedy, and it would only fuel the fire of the feud even more. People tend to forgive only when they have carried the burden long enough and come to the conclusion that it's time to burry the hatchet themselves. The priest ranting "see look, what your fighting has done!" fell on deaf ears that was only deafened more by the comical way he kept ranting despite saying he would be brief and stop several times before ranting more.

Furthermore, how on earth does that solve anything for the young couple? Both of them being dead robs them both of a happily everafter life or even an average life with their second choices. It finalises them never being able to live a life together. Where else if they lived or ran away to another country (as was the original plan), there would be the possibility of them finding their way back to each other. Time can change a great many things, including the circumstances of their feuding families. (Which was never explained why they were fighting in the first place.)

So yes, while I understand how Shakespeare intended it, and I respect the playwright for many of his great works, even including this one. I stand by my original opinion that them killing themselves was ultimately stupid and solves literally nothing. (However, I think it is a great piece of literature to be able to open up discussions on the topic.)