

The Shun River was renamed Cao'e River in her honor. Eight years later, a temple was built in Shangyu dedicated to the memory of Cao E and her sacrifice for filial piety. After five days, she and her father were both found dead in the river from drowning. in an act of filial piety, she decided to find her father in the river. In 143, Cao Xu accidentally fell into the Shun River. Cao E, a Han Dynasty girl venerated for her filial piety.

Antinous (born circa 111), lover of Roman Emperor Hadrian, drowned in the Nile in 130 the grieving emperor commissioned hundreds of statues of the youth and spread them around the Empire.Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, drowned in the Nile in 47 BC.Committed ritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era, a sacrifice still commemorated today during the Duan Wu or Dragon Boat Festival. Hippasus of Metapontum, a student of the mathematician Pythagoras, who, by some accounts, was drowned by his fellow Pythagoreans for the imprudence of discovering irrational numbers.

