[AnotherUnixGeek]

It may be a fabrication to cover up that Octavian’s soldiers killed the queen.

Why would Octavian have needed any fabrication to justify kill Cleopatra? The Roman Senate had declared war on her.

In most accounts, Octavian wanted Cleopatra alive to exhibit her in his formal triumph ceremony. She chose to escape this humiliation by suicide.

[Rinnwald]

Octavian didn't kill Cleopatra, but history did get the details reversed.

[Jamestown1630]

She chose to escape this humiliation by suicide.

Yeah; this article seems kind of nutsy to me. They wanted to 'parade' her; and if they had done, there would be some record.

And I'm sure that she knew of many methods through which she could have accomplished suicide.

[EinNYC]

I wonder if death by snake bite hurts. I imagine it is pure agony.