Inspired by a thread at TWC 
My own suggestions:
-Probably a false account, but the important late 5th century BC philosopher, Embedocles, jump to his death in the mountain Etna, so as to be taken to the heavens.
A more realistic account mentions him being mortally wounded from falling off a chariot near Megara.
-Herostratos was executed for setting the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos aflame. He claimed he did so cause he wanted to be famous, and saw no other way to achieve it.
-Heraklitos, the ephesian philosopher, became a hermit and died in the wilderness after using a wrong treatment on his ailing body.
-Iirc some king of Corinth (Periander?) ordered his own execution by dressing up as a stranger and hiring guards to kill said stranger, then more guards to kill the first guards, and then even more to kill the second guards. Supposedly cause he wanted his burial site to be unknown.
And suggestions by the OP there:
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The ancient Greek stoic philosopher Chryssipus is said to have died of laughter watching a donkey eat some figs. Apparently he called to a servant: "Let the donkey drink some wine!" before collapsing to the ground. Diogenes Laertius reports that "Having laughed too much, he died". The incident took place in the 3rd century BC.
Separately there is also a report that Zeuxis, a 5th-century BC Greek painter, is said to have died laughing at the humorous way he painted the goddess Aphrodite – after the old woman who commissioned it insisted on modeling for the portrait. An honourable mention also goes to the playwright Aeschylus, who is said to have died after an eagle dropped a tortoise onto his bald head, mistaking it for a rock. The irony is that Aeschylus had been staying outside, to avoid a prophesy that he would be killed by a falling object."
Love the Chryssipos one
My own suggestions:
-Probably a false account, but the important late 5th century BC philosopher, Embedocles, jump to his death in the mountain Etna, so as to be taken to the heavens.
A more realistic account mentions him being mortally wounded from falling off a chariot near Megara.
-Herostratos was executed for setting the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos aflame. He claimed he did so cause he wanted to be famous, and saw no other way to achieve it.
-Heraklitos, the ephesian philosopher, became a hermit and died in the wilderness after using a wrong treatment on his ailing body.
-Iirc some king of Corinth (Periander?) ordered his own execution by dressing up as a stranger and hiring guards to kill said stranger, then more guards to kill the first guards, and then even more to kill the second guards. Supposedly cause he wanted his burial site to be unknown.
And suggestions by the OP there:
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The ancient Greek stoic philosopher Chryssipus is said to have died of laughter watching a donkey eat some figs. Apparently he called to a servant: "Let the donkey drink some wine!" before collapsing to the ground. Diogenes Laertius reports that "Having laughed too much, he died". The incident took place in the 3rd century BC.
Separately there is also a report that Zeuxis, a 5th-century BC Greek painter, is said to have died laughing at the humorous way he painted the goddess Aphrodite – after the old woman who commissioned it insisted on modeling for the portrait. An honourable mention also goes to the playwright Aeschylus, who is said to have died after an eagle dropped a tortoise onto his bald head, mistaking it for a rock. The irony is that Aeschylus had been staying outside, to avoid a prophesy that he would be killed by a falling object."
Love the Chryssipos one
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