Juliet's mother does not die in Romeo and Juliet. She is at Juliet's tomb in the final scene, when all is revealed, and the Capulets and Lord Montague discover that their children have died because of their old family feud. Lady Montague, however, does die. When he arrives at the Capulet family crypt, Montague tells the Prince:
Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night!
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath.
Lady Capulet's final lines, however, suggests she feels like she will die of grief as well. She says the sight of her daughter's body next to Romeo is "as a bell that warns my old age to a sepulchre." She is obviously devastated by her daughter's death (which she has to endure a second time, as they thought her already dead), but she is still alive at the end of the play.
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