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Athanasia Totsidou (Greek: Αθανασία Τοτσίδου) is a professional volleyball player from Greece, who is a member of the Greece women's national volleyball team.
Athanasia "Sia" Anagnostopoulou (Greek: Αθανασία "Σία" Αναγνωστοπούλου) is a left-wing Greek politician and academic who was the Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. From 18 July to 28 August 2015, she served as the Alternate Minister for European Affairs in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.
Saint Athanasia of Aegina (c.790 in Aegina – 860 in Timia, Greece) was a saint who worked in the Byzantine Empire and was for a while adviser to the Empress Theodora II.She served as an abbess and was known for her miraculous healing of the sick and those seen as possessed.
Awesome name with a great meaning.
Beautiful name!
Also Bulgarian, spelled Атанасия.
You'll find bearers on social media.
Those comments that claim 'Athanasia is like euthanasia' don't actually make sense- 'a' is a negative prefix, makes 'Athanasia' actually an antonym to what euthanasia is.
Athanasia in Greek is the feminine form of Athanasios meaning the one who doesn't die. It's synonym to immortality. My name is Athanasia too.
Greeks pronounce this name a-thana-SIA, with the stress on the last syllable. Most women with this name are called Sia for short.
In English the word Athanasia, a synonym for immortality, is pronounced atha-nasia, sounding like euthanasia.
So the name and the word are really pronounced differently, but I suppose people unfamiliar with the name would pronounce it like euthanasia.
It reminds me of "euthanasia", as well.
It means IMMORTALITY.Euthanasia and Anesthesia are Greek words as well and may sound similar to someone less evolved.
Oscar Wilde wrote a poem called Athanasia, about the concept of immortality.
It's quite pretty, but it sounds too close to "euthanasia" and would easily get confused with Anastasia.
Sounds too much like a combination of Euthanasia and Anathesia to me.
No offense meant, but it sounds a bit too much like "euthanasia", in my opinion.

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