As humans, we have a fear of the unknown and death is one of them. We really don’t know what happens after death. Some people fear it and others accept it. This leaves people to philosophize what could happen after death. This topic of the aspect after death has been debated in many centuries. Some believe something does happen and some do not. They use philosophy to prove that there is something after death. Some great philosophers believe that there is an aspect of the human that survives death, but there are many different theories like the immortality of the soul, reincarnation, rebirth, and resurrection.
One of the greatest philosophers Plato, author of Phaedo, which is about the last words interchanged by his teacher, Socrates, who was sentenced to die by poison. Socrates had always questioned everything, as he said in Ancient Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, “.....”(...). In the story of Plato, Socrates talks about death and what happens after it. Socrates embraces the idea of death because it is the nature of life then we soon or later faces to death. Socrates “desire to prove to [people] that the real philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die and that after death he may hope to obtain the greatest good in the other world.” (94). Moreover, Socrates remark that a true philosopher spends their life preparing for death. A true philosopher is training in turning away temptation of the body away and only