There are multiple emotions that are shown by people when a loved one, friend, or family dies. The most common emotions are thoroughly shown in the painting The Death of Socrates by David and “The Death Scene” from The Phaedo by Plato. Although they bear some minor differences, the similarities in the way they express the emotions between The Death of Socrates by David and “The Death Scene” from The Phaedo by Plato are evident. The emotion that is thoroughly shown throughout both works is sadness. In the painting, there is a guy leaned against the wall that appears to be crying. There is also a guy sobbing into Socrates’s clothing. In the writing, Plato used phrases such as, “my tears rolled down in floods...”(Plato) , and “being deprived