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The responsibilities as King Creon's wife and Haemon's mother, and then a suicidal act, are what Theban Queen Eurydice does in the play 'Antigone'. Eurydice takes her responsibilities seriously, despite her husband's difficult and unappreciative personality. But she ends up fatally stabbing herself upon learning of Haemon's suicide. He's the last of her four children, and like the others dies violently.

Without children and with the prospects of grandchildren now ended, Eurydice can't bear to spend another minute above ground despite all the benefits of being royal.

Addition:

It should be pointed out that Queen Euridice is not the same character as Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus.

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