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Suicide is what happens to Oedipus' queen in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Jocasta is Theban King Oedipus' queen. In the last part of the play, she correctly deduces that Oedipus is her son, the killer of her first husband, King Laius, and the half-brother of his children with her. The knowledge causes her to hang herself with the threads from her own robes.

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