Death plays a big role in Antigone, as it represents different point of view by the characters.  The characters in the story are faced with a big challenge of handling their own death or the deaths of loved ones. Antigone, Haemon and Eurydice each commit suicide. Their actions and the challenges they were put through got them to the point of committing suicide. As the actions were taken one after each tragedy happened, leads to a point that influence the reader to think committing suicide was the only way to truly set them free and escape their fate.