Antigone's fiance Haemon and then her future father-in-law Creon found her dead. She was walled up in an isolated cave. Haemon managed to break through, but not in time to keep her from hanging herself. Neither was Creon able to save her or his son from their untimely deaths by suicide. Creon had repented of his harsh punishment of Antigone for having buried her brother Polyneices. But he got to the cave in time to find Antigone hanging by a linen halter, and his son clinging inconsolably to her dead body.