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Suicide is what happens to Creon's wife in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Queen Eurydice is King Creon's wife. She hears of the suicide of Prince Haemon, her only surviving child, and of Princess Antigone, her intended daughter-in-law. Eurydice decides to stab herself with a sharp knife rather than spend the rest of her life with a husband she hates and without the grandchildren she so desires.

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