Death is like a divorce. In the eyes of many, it’s a tragedy that none of us want to deal with. But the main difference between the two is that divorce can be experienced, time and time again. The victim, in this case, is aware of the dilemma, and all marriages can be fixed, unless the wife happens to be a gold digger, and runs off with your favorite tesla and several million dollars. Then there’s death; one of the many inevitabilities in life. When you play your cards right, it creeps on you slowly, and pulls your soul away from your body until it’s finally separated from reality. We all deal with it; Dogs, turtles, dinosaurs, humans, insects, and even trees, like the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (5067 years). That’s just a natural way of life. However, with death, it’s more complicated than we’d like to think. We generally call an evil, and leave it at that most of the time. It can happen at anytime and anywhere, with or without notice. If someone witnesses a victim get shot in the head by an assailant, then that person forever feels the fear of death, and his/her emotions run rampant inside the heart and mind. In that precise moment, where the bullet rips apart the brain, and the conscious is removed, we see that that …show more content…
He accepts it. Granted, before that, he tries to persuade to the court that death may be a bit too much, and looks for another option: “Exile? For perhaps you might accept that assessment.” (Apology 37c) As bizarre as this statement is, it doesn’t feel like this comes from a place of fear. What it may be is that this request comes from justice, like it is a way to appropriately punish Socrates, rather than death. This spells out that he looks at death as a worse punishment, but doesn’t think of it in the way that is already described. In fact, when it does hit him, he describes the value in