Persuasive Letter To Socrates

Hello Socrates, it is my pleasure to finally meet you. We have traveled far and wide to finally be in your presence. Meeting you, and being able to hear your teachings has been a dream of mine. Today, not only are we glad to be in your presence, but we would like to discuss with you what was meant when you said, “To fear death, is nothing else but to believe ourselves to be wise, when we are not; and to fancy that we know what we do not know. In effect, nobody knows death; nobody can tell, but it may be the greatest benefit of mankind; and yet men are afraid of it, as if they knew certainly that it were the greatest of evils…. Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know that this is of a truth — that no evil can happen to a …show more content…
There are no guarantees in life stating that if we are good, only good will come to us. You do not know death, and by making this assumption you are possibly contradicting your original statement that one who fears death is not wise because there is no reason to fear something you do not know. But, why would one trust in something they do not know? Death could be anything from just falling asleep and never waking up again to finally living in your perfect world; a world you have only dreamed of. Or, death could be everything terrible in this world, but the thing is, there are no guarantees and no living person truly knows their fortune in the afterlife. No one who has experienced death is here now to tell us what it is really like. They are now experiencing whatever it is that death is, whether it be good or evil. One will never know this until it happens to them, and by that point they will be forever unable to tell us, the