Week 1: How Socrates Died (post 4)

In the book, How Socrates Died, there is a very good quote that Socrates had stated to his friends while he was in jail, "Life and death are contraries and can never coexist; but wherever there is life there is soul, so that the soul contains that which is contrary to death and can never admit death; consequently the soul is immortal." His friends were skeptical of this question of immortality, but this quotation says so much as to what happens after death according to Socrates. Socrates even states that the human soul is much more durable than the body.

Based on Socrates belief, he never died. The flesh which is consumed by death releases Socrates soul to live on forever. He was able to convince his listeners about this question of immortality, he was able to accept what will happen to him and he was ok with all that would be happening to him thereafter. He then had to drink the poison which took his life, with his friends witnessing. Socrates was a great man of knowledge and wisdom, for he was about to be poisoned, yet he did it with out hesitation nor fear because he believed that his soul would continue to live after death.