Death and Love in Antigone Death and love go hand in hand in Greek tragedies. Antigone loves her brother so much that she risks her life to give him the proper burial he deserves. When Haimon discovers his love, Antigone, dead he becomes so overwrought with grief that he plunges his sword into his own side. When the news of Haimon's death reaches his mother, Eurydice, she breaks down and she too kills herself but …
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…ch-loved brother. Haimon could not take that he would never see Antigone alive again so he made it so they would be together always. Poor Eurydice lost both a son and a daughter-in-law in the same day. She had nothing else keeping her hear on earth so she too took her life to be with a loved in the afterlife. If somebody loves somebody, sometimes they will do whatever it takes to be with them.