(Originally written November 22, 2016 in Book 26)
Phaedo
Plato
(Death Scene)
A man can be confident in the state of his immortal soul as he approaches death if he has lived a life full of "moderation, righteousness, courage, freedom and truth"
Socrates does not care how they bury him for he will not be the corpse, but be somewhere else - a blessed place.
The man who delivered the poison to Socrates wept. Socrates remarked what a pleasant man his guard was.
All of Socrates' friends broke down when he took the poison, but Socrates chided them for being like the women he sent away.
Socrates' last words were a jest: "we owe a cock to Asclepius". Asclepius was the god who sick people offered a sacrifice of a cock to gain cures for ailments. Socrates was indicating that he owed Asclepius a cock for the curing of his ailment. Socrates was cured by death of his illness, life.
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