What Is Death?

People have a perception on what death is, but the truth is, nobody has experienced death and lived to tell about it.   Many definitions say that death is the termination of biological functions that define an organism but not one definition explains what it feels like.   If one does not know what death feels like then how can they be afraid of it? To Socrates it would be foolish to fear the unknown but most people are afraid of the unknown. Not knowing how their death will occur or when it will happen or even what will happen after death. For some people, death may be a good thing but one won’t know until they experience it for themselves.   Many people’s greatest fear is facing the unknown and accepting that one day death will occur because nobody lives forever.
In Athenian society all citizens act according to what I consider appropriate and not what an individual assumes to be appropriate. Athenian citizens help make decisions in government and put their input into certain policies and political ideas. The citizens all obey these rules except for Socrates. Socrates is unlike all the others in his town.   Many of the citizens disagree with his methods and his beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife.
Socrates focuses on things that other citizens do not feel are normal. “ It goes something like this: Socrates is guilty of wrongdoing in that he busies himself studying things in the sky and below the Earth; he makes the worse into the stronger argument, and he teaches others to do the same” (Plato 19 b-c).   His accusers believe that he wastes his time focusing on things that are not important in life. They do not believe that Socrates has the right to argue with citizens and influence others to follow in his footsteps. Other citizens also believe that “Socrates is a pestilential fellow who corrupts the young” (Apology 23d). His accusers are scared that he is going to corrupt the minds of his peers and the youth. Socrates is not doing anything wrong by...