Makaria (Macaria) was the goddess of a "blessed" death, a minion of her father Hades. She was perhaps a more merciful counterpart of the death-god Thanatos or else connected with the passage of souls to the Islands of the Blessed (Nesoi Makarioi). A goddess Macaria ('μακαρία', literally 'blessed') is named in the Suda. This Macaria is the daughter of Hades. She seems to have embodied a blessed death; the Suda connects her name to the figure of speech "be gone to blessedness," instead of misery o