Socrates's View Of Death

People look forward to life. They live for their life. They seek to make memories; they seek to live their life to the fullest. People take risks and challenges because they believe this is the only life they have so why not? Not many people live to die. Death is a very frightening and harrowing concept to most people. Usually, people think of death in dismal and bleak terms. But the famous philosopher, Socrates, does not. He thinks of death in hopeful and promising terms instead. To Socrates, he views his own impending death as a good thing, even as something that should be welcomed. He has a divergent perspective on death which lets him have belief in the afterlife.
Socrates has a different, non-traditional view on death. He views death as
They gain wisdom, but how? Well, Socrates believes there is a life after death. However, he cannot prove that the afterlife exists, but he is confident that it does. He says that being dead is either a dreamless sleep without consciousness or the soul going to another place. If the latter is true, then one could talk to all the great poets, judges, rulers, and heroes of the past. Then Socrates could philosophize with them in Hades, which is what he is meant to do. Moreover, Socrates knows with certainty that nothing evil can happen to him in this life or the life after because he believes he is a good man who is in touch with God. Furthermore, he believes that a philosopher should be confident that after death he will obtain something good so a philosopher spends his entire life training for death. So if a philosopher spends his entire life training for death, then should not this philosopher know more about where he is going when he dies? Socrates believes in the afterlife, though he cannot prove it, and he believes that something great will await him wherever he does go when he
It seems like people are afraid to die, whether they are afraid of what is happening to them or how they will die. But Socrates is not afraid of death; in fact, he welcomes it. He met death gladly and willingly, as he argues a philosopher should meet death. He does not fear death because he is able to tolerate and even flourish in aporia. Aporia is described as knowing that one does not know what one thought one knew. Furthermore, it is said that Socrates had courage and self-control to stay calm before he dies. Janet Sullivan wrote in A Note on the Death of Socrates, that the symptoms Plato describes for the death of Socrates do not correlate with hemlock poisoning, so this shows the ultimate self-control of Socrates and his perseverance of the psyche as it was leaving his body. This is an incredible feat in and of itself. Additionally, as Socrates was dying, the people around him were grieving, but Socrates was not. He believes that it is wrong to not grieve when one is dying if one does not believe there are gods and men, men who are better than earthly men, waiting for them. But he does believe it, so he has no reason to grieve. Socrates approaches death with a new and different perspective than most people in that he awaits it instead of hiding from